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Vote:   | A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read. |
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Vote: | Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility. |
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Vote: | Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. |
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Vote: | Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. |
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Vote: | I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. |
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Vote: | If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page. |
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Vote: | Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows. |
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Vote: | People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there. |
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Vote: | Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. |
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Vote: | Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were. |
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Vote: | Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented. |
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Vote: | The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. |
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Vote: | The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. |
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Vote: | The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. |
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Vote: | The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. |
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Vote: | Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. |
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Vote: | When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. |
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Vote: | Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. |