"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."

-- Abe Fortas

#Essentials Quotes #Stories Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“Our aspirations are our responsibilities.”
“We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.”
“Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.”
“With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but itâ€™s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.”
“If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?”
“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”
“Some writers may toy with the fancy of a â€˜Christ-myth,â€™ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the â€˜Christ-mythâ€™ theories.”
“I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.”

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