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Quotes by Editor
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
94
"Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation."
65
"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."
60
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
57
"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
39
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
37
"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
37
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
32
"What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen."
27
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
27
"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
27
"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east."
26
"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
25
"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions."
25
"Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops."
25
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
24
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
24
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
23
"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
23
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
22
"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
22
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
22
"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
22
"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
21
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
21
"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns."
21
"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."
21
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
20
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
20
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