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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."

"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."

"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."

"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."

"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."

"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."

"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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