"To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us.Â It's up to the public to decide what's true."

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Ben Bradlee

#People Quotes #News Quotes #Causes Quotes

“He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.”
“Because thereâ€™s a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because she begins to age. Aging is every beautiful womanâ€™s kryptonite. And so, yes, itâ€™s ridiculous and no, you donâ€™t have much time and of course itâ€™s not fair. Those three statements are the essence of beauty.”
“Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.”
“When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.”
“I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.”

Source : "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile asâ€¦the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.”
“Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.”
“To be able to forget means sanity.”

Source : Jack London (2014). “Jack London's Science Fiction (Deluxe Annotated)”, p.474

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