John Gunther Quotes

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• He was trying to save both his faces.
• Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
• There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
• The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
• France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.
• Live while you live, then die and be done with.
• What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
• I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
• What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he…
• Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
• God is what's good in me.
• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of…
• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy…
• The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
• One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
• All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
• If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
• It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

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