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Quotes by Journalist
"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits-a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
351
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
340
"I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them."
249
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
222
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
218
"Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation."
216
"I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences."
216
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
203
"There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books."
200
"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
195
"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."
193
"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
187
"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
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187
"And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places."
180
"I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S."
177
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
177
"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."
172
"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."
172
"And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion."
172
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
171
"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."
170
"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."
169
"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
169
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
167
"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
165
"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."
163
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
158
"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."
156
"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
148
"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
147
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
137
"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
134
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
128
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
128
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
125
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
125
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
122
"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
120
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
118
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
114
"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."
112
"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
111
"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."
106
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