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A.J. Liebling1 quote
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling · 1960Aleister Crowley1 quote
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. — Aleister Crowley · 1929Capt. Ed Hocken1 quote
It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair! — Capt. Ed Hocken · 1988Janet Malcolm1 quote
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on the people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. — Janet Malcolm · 1989Joe Miller1 quote
Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There won't be any last minute, surprise witnesses. No one will break down on the stand with a tearful confession. — Joe Miller · 1993Leo Tolstoy1 quote
All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat. — Leo Tolstoy · 1871Maxwell Scott1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Thomas Jefferson1 quote
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them. — Thomas Jefferson · 1807