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

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

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

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

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

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

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

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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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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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