"In the real world, nothing happens at..." - Quote by Mark Twain
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
More by Mark Twain
“It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.”
“My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
More on Reality
“The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.”
“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
“There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.”
More on Journalism
“In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.”
“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.”
“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”