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
evening man morning paper
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
men media he-man
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
american-journalist business
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
stupid wine men
Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.
knowledge survival anomalies
It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
healthy stories way
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
sleep two southern
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
long trying boots
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
sane
No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
war two gout
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
shy sandwiches used
I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.
writing self woven
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
country new-york thinking
The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
writing reflection mature
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.