Jonathan Yardley quotes
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“David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.”
-- Jonathan YardleySource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day.”
-- Jonathan YardleySource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.”
-- Jonathan YardleySource : "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.
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“One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.”
-- Jonathan YardleySource : "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.
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“Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.”
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“Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.”
-- Jonathan Yardley
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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“All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.”
Source : "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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