"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."

Harold Ross, American Editor

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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

Sonny Liston, American Athlete

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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

Ellen Goodman, American Journalist

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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

Marguerite Duras, French Novelist

Journalism, Literature, Word, Workers

"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."

Jim Lehrer, American Journalist

Journalism, Practice, Questions

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"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."

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"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."

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"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

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"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

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"Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."

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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."

"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."

"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."

"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."

"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."

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"And we forget because we must and not because we will."

"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."

"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."

"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."

"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."