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John Gunther

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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.


— John Gunther


#life #death

Live while you live, then die and be done with.


— John Gunther


#life #death

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.


— John Gunther


#middle-east #syria #dating

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.


— John Gunther


#driving #equivalent #putting #suddenly #uphill

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.


— John Gunther


#golf #golf ball #green #like #travels

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.


— John Gunther


#depends #happiness #leisurely

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.


— John Gunther


#american politics #cannot #cut #generalizations #politics

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.


— John Gunther


#find #first #journalism #know #out

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?


— John Gunther


#embarrass #him #man #tell #texas

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.


— John Gunther


#deliberately #founded #good #good idea #idea






About John Gunther






Did you know about John Gunther?

immediately following the Dick Clark variety show. S. Gunther wrote "I was at one time or another in charge of Daily News offices in London Berlin Vienna Moscow Rome and Paris and I also visited Poland Spain the Balkans and Scandinavia.

He is best known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud about the death of his teenage son Johnny Gunther from a brain tumor. John Gunther (August 30 1901 – May 29 1970) was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books.

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