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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
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"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
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"What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."
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"I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch."
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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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"I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department."
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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."
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"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
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"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
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"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
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"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
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"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
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"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."
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"Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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