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Quotes by Journalist
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
303
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
187
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
179
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
173
"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."
158
"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."
139
"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."
137
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
130
"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."
127
"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
125
"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
119
"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."
115
"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."
112
"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."
112
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
110
"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."
108
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
107
"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
105
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
105
"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."
105
"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."
103
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
103
"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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102
"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."
101
"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."
101
"And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion."
100
"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."
99
"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."
99
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
98
"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."
95
"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
95
"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
95
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
94
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
92
"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."
91
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
89
"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."
88
"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."
88
"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
87
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
86
"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more."
83
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
82
"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
79
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