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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in... →
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered... →
It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so... →
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that... →