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"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
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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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"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
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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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"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
Literature
"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."
Poetry
"We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres."
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
Experience
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
Crisis
"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
People
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
Literature
"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."
War
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
Money
"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
War
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