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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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"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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"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about."
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"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."
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"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
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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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"Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country."
Man
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love
"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
Happiness
"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
Desire
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Journalism
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
Woman
"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Man
"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time
"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."
Happiness
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