A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling
Abbott Joseph "A. J." Lieblingwas an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 October 1904
CountryUnited States of America
anger society roles
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
writing way damn
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
girl crazy boxing
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
cities chicago bigs
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
wine insulting bottles
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
children war hero
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
christmas fall mean
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
fun taken enemy
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
sweet new-york texas
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
poor undeserving publishers
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
later-in-life opposites world
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
inexperience cynicism products
Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
writing impossible eating
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
writing pay firsts
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.