"Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?"

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Source : Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.101, Open Road Media

Upton Sinclair

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“The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.”
“All things are possible, only believe.”
“When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.”
“Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.”
“Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.”
“What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind.”
“There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.”

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