Journalist Quotes

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
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