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Quotes by Editor
"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."
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"He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table."
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"Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people."
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"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
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"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it."
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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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