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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

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Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

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Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

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The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

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I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 2nd, 1931

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