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• I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing…
• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit…
• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
• Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
• The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
• Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in…
• I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating…

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