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“Exposing filth and discovering the truth are two different things. The former is reporting, the latter is journalism.”

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Book:Woman Over World: The Novel

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“Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?”

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Author:Anna Politkovskaya

“At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.”

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Book:Scoop

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“But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?”

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Book:The Wolf Gift

Source: The Wolf Gift

“To quote an early mentor,” I tell the kid, “ ‘A journalist needs ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability.”

Book:The Bone Clocks

Source: The Bone Clocks

“Think it. Write it. Sell it.”

Author:Dee J. Adams

“I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness should teem with voluminous productions.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.”

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Author:E.J. Dionne Jr.

“Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. 'If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?' Lincoln asked." "Abraham Lincoln wasn't much of a dancer. 'Miss Todd, I should like to dance with you in the worst way,' he told his future wife. Miss Todd later said to a friend, 'He certainly did.'" John Quincy Adams was a first-rate swimmer. Once when he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a women reporter snatched his clothes and sat on them until he gave her an interview.”

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Book:So You Want to Be President?

Source: So You Want to Be President?

“It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik