"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
"I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one."
"Newspapers are the second hand of history."
"It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that."
"Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers."
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
"Newspaper readership is still growing in India."
"I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers."
"The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins."
"A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?""
"Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper."
"Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe."
"If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper."
"I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers."
"The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false."
"When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers."
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."
"I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers."
"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier."