"So I became a newspaperman. I hated..." - Quote by Mark Twain
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
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“I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.”
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More on Journalism
“The sole aim of journalism should be service.”
“The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.”
“That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.”
More on Honesty
“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”
“The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.”
“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”