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" A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. "
City
Morning
Man
" A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department. "
Him
Principles
Difficulty
" An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. "
American
Like
Leading
" Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. "
Big
City
Chicago
" Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. "
Only
Freedom
Who
" I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. "
Than
Who
Write
" If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. "
Writing
Enough
Food
" If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. "
You
Dawn
Know
" If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. "
Long
You
Yourself
" I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. "
Take
Democracy
Bed
" It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. "
Impossible
Early
Life
" No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. "
Man
Sane
Considered
" People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. "
News
Everywhere
People
" Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. "
Political
New York
Travel
" The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. "
Press
Function
Money
" The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings. "
Life
Live
Beauty
" The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. "
Experience
Writing
Eating
" There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. "
More
Than
Publishers
" The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. "
Hot
Enemy
Fun
" The way to write is well, and how is your own business. "
Well
Way
Business
" The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. "
You
Young
Remember
" To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. "
War
Men
Innocent
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