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A. J. Liebling
American Journalist
Born: Oct 18, 1904
Died: Dec 28, 1963
Afford Good Own Press Write You
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A. J. Liebling
News People Confuse Everywhere Read Newspapers
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling
Politics Freedom Own Press Those Only Who Guaranteed
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. A. J. Liebling
Morning Man Ownership Paper Eye City Glass Like Often Newspaper Evening
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. A. J. Liebling
War Cinema Innocent Made Men Few Thanks Heros Those All Americans Paris Troops Combat Particularly Disconcerting Won American Any Children Sensitive Breakthrough Then Who Now Aware Belong
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. A. J. Liebling
You Yourself Try Long Enough Boot Always Manage Just Hard
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. A. J. Liebling
You Before Colder Way About Dawn Tent Hours Know Bedding Southern Than Get Roll Any Tunisia Ground Two Sleep
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. A. J. Liebling
Man Considered Pleasures Reliably Debilitating Afford Ascetic Sane Sane Man Dispense
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. A. J. Liebling
Better Faster Write Than Anybody Who
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. A. J. Liebling
Life Christmas Sometimes Black Master Beauty Live Bonus Plot Kind Finds Potato Gives Spite Drives He Mash Like Him Occasional Dry Falls Hands Expects Owner Form Pattern Mean Newspaperman Stall Who
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. A. J. Liebling
More Generally Concept Cherished Than Poor Publishers
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. A. J. Liebling
Good Science Enemy Out Following Taken Hot Deal Heels Fun Good Deal
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. A. J. Liebling
Good Food Experience Writing Worth Impossible Down Setting Enough Eating About Primary Well Within Without Accumulate Anything Span Requisite Appetite

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