Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
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Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.Melvin Maddocks
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
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It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a single egg.
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Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
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