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

"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."

"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."

"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."

"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."

"I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place."

"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
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