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Brief about A. J. Liebling: By info that we know A. J. Liebling was born at 1904-10-18. And also A. J. Liebling is American Journalist.

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Tags: Confuse, News, Read

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Tags: Freedom, Politics, Press

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Tags: American, Blind, Food

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

Tags: Money, Role, Society

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Tags: Afford, Ascetic, Sane

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Tags: Fun, Good, Science

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.

Tags: Evening, Morning, Often

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Tags: Big, Place, Seems

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Tags: Anybody, Faster, Write

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

Tags: Bed, Democracy, Weak

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Tags: Enough, Hard, Yourself

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Tags: Business, Write

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.

Tags: Enough, Remember, Young

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Tags: Concept, Poor, Publishers

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.

Tags: Away, Him, Less

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.

Tags: Food, Good, Money

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.

Tags: Ground, Hours, Sleep

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.

Tags: Impossible, Left, Life

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.

Tags: Political, Time, Travel

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.

Tags: Beauty, Life
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