...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.
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Aysha Taryam
Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.
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David Baldacci
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Warren Ellis
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
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Norman Mailer
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
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Fran Lebowitz
More Quotes By Gore Vidal
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in...
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes...
