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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

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It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

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I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

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Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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