"What looked safe was not safe. What looked……" — David Halberstam
"What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world."
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25 Quotes by David Halberstam
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- Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became…
- Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
- These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
- There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do,…
- With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on…
- If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
- QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you…
- Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it…
- Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
- The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a…
- Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was…
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