Quote by Rebecca West
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. – Rebecca West

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Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

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Ideology
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

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Women
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West

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Astrology
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller

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Media

Weve uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. – Jimmy Carter

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Media

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. – George Bernard Shaw

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Media

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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibber

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Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet. – Bill Cosby

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