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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. – Ben Hecht

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Im a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. – Ben Hecht

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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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