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Quotes by Editor
"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
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"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."
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"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
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"Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it."
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"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."
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"I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence."
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"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"
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"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed."
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"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate."
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"When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls."
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"He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits."
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