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It is hard for a writer to call an editor great, because it is natural for him to think of the edito...

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Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Mollie and Other War Pieces

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred...

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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind m...

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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your ...

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible...

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I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can writ...

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Khrushchev, too, looks like the kind of man his physicians must continually try to diet, and histori...

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Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Bee...

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

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A. J. Liebling

Journalist

Born: 1904-10-18

Died: 1963-12-28

Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling (born October 18, 1904, in New York City; died December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Best known as a press critic, Liebling wrote the magazine's "Wayward Press" feature from 1945 on.More