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"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"
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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."
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"Plenty of people will think you're crazy, no matter what you do. Don't let that stop you from finding the people who think you're incredible-the ones who need to hear your voice, because it reminds them of their own. Your tribe. They're out there. Don't let your critics interfere with your search for them."
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"And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?' What is good, PhASdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
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"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."
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"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier."
Night
"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet."
Money
"I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it."
Politics
"When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella."
Writing
"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
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"When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend."
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"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
Man
"Politics in America is the binding secular religion."
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"Power in America today is control of the means of communication."
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"For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority."
Man
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