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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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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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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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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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Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

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Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

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

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

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

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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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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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

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

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

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News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

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

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