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“We need to police ourselves in the media.”

Needs Literature Media Police

Author:Bob Woodward

“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.”

Moments Poetry Literature Progress Police Manage

Author:Ted Hughes

“The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.”

People Writing Art Literature Poet Achievement Police Promotion Police State

Author:Elliott Colla

“Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.”

Literature Police Scandal

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”

Stills Earth Lying Literature Cities Sun Police Rounds Bombs Deceit Atoms Factories Workplace Modernism Streaming Atom Bomb Prowling

Author:George Orwell

“I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.”

Literature Crime Beats Police Covered

Book:Anchorwoman

Source: Anchorwoman

“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.”

Wells Kind Stories Funny Literature Understanding Hell Special Drug Police Stations Heroin Houston Smack

Author:Dan Rather

“I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.”

Literature Force Effort Conscience Criticism Police Despite Best Effort Police Force

Author:Anton Chekhov