Melvin Maddocks Quotes

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• It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
• Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
• Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
• Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
• Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the…
• Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.
• Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough facts and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with…
• To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
• Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.

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