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A. J. Liebling [1904-1963] American

Rank: 102
Journalist

Abbott Joseph "A. J." Liebling was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death.

Food, Christmas, Freedom, Politics, Society, Travel, War

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.	Freedom, Politics	101
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.	Food	102
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.		103
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.	War	104
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.	Food	105
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.	Food	106
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.	Society	107
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.		108
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.		109
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.		110
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.		111
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.		112
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.		113
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.		114
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.		115
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.	Travel	116
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.		117
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.	Christmas	118
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.		119
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.		120
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.		121
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.		122

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