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

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

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

" Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. "

" Americans like fat books and thin women. "

" It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. "

" 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. "

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

" Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes. "

" Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. "

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

" Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. "

" 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. "

" Serious journalism need not be solemn. "

" The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. "

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

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

" The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. "

" Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. "

" It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it. "

" 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. "

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

" Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. "

" 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. "

" What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. "

" 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. "

" You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. "