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"When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair."
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"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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"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books."
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"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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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
Work
"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
Writing
"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."
Gender
"When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London."
Psychology
"If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking."
Healing
"Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation."
History
"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."
Experience
"He prefers his adventures second hand."
Adventure
"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
Politics
"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
Writing
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