"What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy."

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Source : c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

Joseph Pulitzer

#Clever Quotes #Style Quotes #Needs Quotes

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”
“Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.”
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”
“I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.”
“For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.”
“We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.”

Source : Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, February 1, 1924.
“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.”
“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”

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