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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."

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Brennan Manning

"When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair."

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Brennan Manning

"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"

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Brennan Manning

"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."

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Brennan Manning

"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."

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Brennan Manning

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

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Brennan Manning

"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."

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Brennan Manning

"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."

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Brennan Manning

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

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Brennan Manning

"Social media was designed to SHARE what you're doing and who you are, not BE what you're doing and be who you are."

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Brennan Manning

"Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mortality

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Time

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

Work

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

Relationship

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."

Philosophy

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

Writing

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit."

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