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

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. – Warren Chappell

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