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" The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. "

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" I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. "

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" Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch. "

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" Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. "

" Media, the plural of mediocrity. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. "

" The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. "

" Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility. "

" Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. "

" I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league. "