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
writing faster i-can
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
men media he-man
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
games play new-orleans
Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.
eye men cities
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
real past boston
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
character organization president
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
loss islands light
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
school years long
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.
freedom views liberty
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
men lasts taste
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
principles louisiana politician
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
world remember enough
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
girl running class
I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
witty humorous writing
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.