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Quotes by Editor
"Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it."
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"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
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"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."
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"Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists."
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"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."
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"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
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"Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes."
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"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."
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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals."
Life,
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"This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job."
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"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession."
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"You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy."
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"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power."
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"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy."
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"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
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"Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?"
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"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."
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"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
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"In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall."
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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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"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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