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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether the

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding

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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! – Henry Fielding

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. – Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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