A. J. Liebling Quotes

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As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins' controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago's undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children's Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.

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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him, simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

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A man's taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.

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

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Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

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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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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

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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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