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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#i see #journalism #journalists #laborers #literature

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ↗

— John Fowles

#common #create #many #need #novelists

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. ↗

— Barney Frank

#capitalists #decisions #economic #great #great majority

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#after #became #beginning #century #course

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#i #like #people #realists #sing

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#among #christian #defects #fundamentalists #hundred

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#group #i #interest #jewish #journalists

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#because #canada #contributed #fly #had

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was. ↗

— Roger Stone

#away #blown #blown away #course #hated