"Only cream and SOBs rise to the top."

--

Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

Al Neuharth

“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”

Source : Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
“People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.”

Source : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
“Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?”
“The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.”
“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.”
“What can be broken, should be broken.”
“If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.”
“Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...”

Source : Nelson Algren (1998). “Nonconformity: Writing on Writing”, p.85, Seven Stories Press

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