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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  Man , Morning , Evening , City


A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  Principles , Politician , Away , Difficulty


The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  Life , Sometimes , Black , Beauty


If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  You , Know , Way , Sleep


To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  Children , War , Men , Innocent


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

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  Own , Only , Politics , Freedom


People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  People , Read , News , Everywhere


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

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist


If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  You , Money , Good , Food


I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

Author: A. J. Liebling - American Journalist
  View , Democracy , Bed , Weak


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