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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time.
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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Karl Kraus
Born:
April 28, 1874
Died:
June 12, 1936
(aged 62)
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