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Melvin Maddocks

"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."

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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

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