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"All literature is gossip."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
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"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
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"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."
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"I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out."
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"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."
Blood
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
Music
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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"All literature is gossip."
Journalism
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
Conversation
"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
God
"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
Art
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Success
"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
Care
"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."
Writing
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