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" In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. "

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" Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. "

" A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. "

" It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. "

" It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly. "

" People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. "

" Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. "

" The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. "

" An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. "

" When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. "

" Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. "

" It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. "

" Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. "

" Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. "

" A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. "

" Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. "

" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "

" Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. "

" American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. "

" Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. "

" A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. "

" Serious journalism need not be solemn. "

" In America nothing dies easier than tradition. "

" Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. "

" Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. "

" Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. "

" Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. "

" Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. "

" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "

" Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. "

" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "