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Quotes by Journalist
"Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both."
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"It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that."
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"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."
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"We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans."
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"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"
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"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
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"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
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"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
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"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
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"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
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"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
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"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."
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"Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?"
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"For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war."
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"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."
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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one."
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"I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation."
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"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
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"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."
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"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
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"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it."
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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say."
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"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"
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"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not."
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"Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'"
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"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."
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"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."
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"Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated."
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"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
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"Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan."
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"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."
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"Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch."
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"Doubt is the father of invention."
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"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
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"In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat."
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"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
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"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
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"Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense."
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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
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"I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care."
Care,
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