"A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism."

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Source : "Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations" edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards, 1933.

Burton Rascoe

#Color Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.”
“Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.”
“A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.”
“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”
“In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.”

Source : Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr
“By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.”
“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).”

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