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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy


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



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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.



Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.



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.

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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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.



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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