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“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”
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John Gunther
#Happiness Quotes
#Food Quotes
#Breakfast Quotes
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“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”
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John Gunther
#Country Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Patriotism Quotes
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“The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.”
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John Gunther
#Liars Quotes
#Cameras Quotes
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“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.”
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John Gunther
Source : John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”
#Essence Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
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“Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.”
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John Gunther
#Interesting Quotes
#Community Quotes
#Arkansas Quotes
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“Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.”
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John Gunther
#Coffee Quotes
#Egypt Quotes
#Iraq Quotes
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“One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.”
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John Gunther
#Golf Quotes
#Balls Quotes
#Green Quotes
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“Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.”
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John Gunther
Source : JOHN GUNTHER (1958). “INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY”
#War Quotes
#Cities Quotes
#Shoes Quotes
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“The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.”
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John Gunther
#Cities Quotes
#Forever Quotes
#Chicago Quotes
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“New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.”
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John Gunther
#New York Quotes
#Stars Quotes
#Rain Quotes
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“God is what's good in me.”
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John Gunther
Source : JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”
#Glory Quotes
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“Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa”
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John Gunther
#Kissing Quotes
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“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”
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John Gunther
#Men Quotes
#Impact Quotes
#Color Quotes
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“I have so much to do! And there's so little time!”
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John Gunther
Source : JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”
#Littles Quotes
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“What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.”
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John Gunther
#Thieves Quotes
#What Is Life Quotes
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“Live while you live, then die and be done with.”
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John Gunther
#Done Quotes
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“France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.”
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John Gunther
#Country Quotes
#World Quotes
#Care Quotes
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“There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.”
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John Gunther
#Cutting Quotes
#Selfishness Quotes
#Generalization Quotes
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“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.”
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John Gunther
#Ironic Quotes
#Superstitions Quotes
#Facts Quotes
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“He was trying to save both his faces.”
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John Gunther
#Sarcastic Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Faces Quotes
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“[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.”
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John Gunther
#Respect Quotes
#New York Quotes
#Cities Quotes
