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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

"No news is good news unless it is told."

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."

"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it."

"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."

"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."

"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
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