A. J. Liebling Short Quotes

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

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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.

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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 the newspapers with news.

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

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The way to write is well, and how is your own business. Nothing else on the subject makes sense.

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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 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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When I watch a fight, I like to study one boxer's problem, solve it, and then communicate my solution vocally.

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

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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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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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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 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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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

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The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

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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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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

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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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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

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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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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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