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The only reason this country is different from any place else is t

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin

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Presidency
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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin

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Drinking
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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. – Anna Quindlen

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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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. – J.R. Stockton

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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. Thats not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. – Edie Brickell

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