Beats Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.” quote by P. J. O'Rourke — Download Open image

“You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.”

P. J. O'Rourke

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