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" A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun. "
Gun
More
Politician
" Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility. "
Received
Credibility
Immediate
" Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! "
Call
Hate
Journalist
" Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference. "
Young
You
People
" Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. "
Keep
Coal
Game
" I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. "
Copy
Long
Started
" I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. "
My Life
Beer
Job
" I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway. "
Work
Nobody
Single
" If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. "
Against
Man
Profit
" I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league. "
Best
Been
Person
" I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. "
Football
Trumpet
Could
" Media, the plural of mediocrity. "
Media
Mediocrity
" Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? "
Lead
Sentence
You
" Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch. "
Hotels
Interest
Politicians
" Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. "
Politics
Men
Teach
" Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. "
Only
Rage
Kept
" Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies. "
Time
Me
Live
" Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. "
Language
In The Past
Cheerful
" The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. "
Funeral
First
Begin
" The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. "
Nothing
Number
Small
" The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. "
Money
Vacant
Professional
" Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. "
Live
Friends
People
" Trump is larger than life. "
Larger
Trump
Than
" When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. "
Started
Stop
Personality
" Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. "
Like
Why
Over
" You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it. "
Dead
Better
Look
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