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A. J. Liebling
9 quotes
“As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chicago: The Second City (Knopf, 1952; University of Nebraska Press, 2004), , p. 110
“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New Yorker (March 28, 1953), quoted in David Remnick, "Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100", The New Yorker (March 29, 2004)
“The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation—both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents—and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer (2004), p. 23
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New Yorker (April 7, 1956)
“Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New Yorker (March 28, 1953), quoted in David Remnick, "Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100", The New Yorker (March 29, 2004)
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A. J. Liebling, in "Do you belong in journalism?", The New Yorker (14 May 1960); sometimes paraphrased : Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
Also quoted by: H. L. Mencken (misattributed)
“You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Road Back to Paris (1988)
“A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Road Back to Paris (1988)
“There is a New Orleans city accent... associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans. “You’re right on that. We’re Mediterranean. I’ve never been to Greece or Italy, but I’m sure I’d be at home there as soon as I landed.” He would, too, I thought. New Orleans resembles Genoa or Marseilles, or Beirut or the Egyptian Alexandria more than it does New York, although all seaports resemble one another more than they can resemble any place in the interior. Like Havana and Port-au-Prince, New Orleans is within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic. The Mediterranean, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico form a homogeneous, though interrupted, sea.”
A. J. Liebling (1904–1963) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Earl of Louisiana (1960), quoted as epigraph in John Kennedy Toole, (wr. 1960s; pub. 1980)