John Gunther
John Gunther
John Guntherwas an American journalist and author whose success came primarily through a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books, including the best-selling Inside U.S.A. in 1947. He is best known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud about the death of his beloved teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth30 August 1901
CountryUnited States of America
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perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was.
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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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It's just a great event that we participate in every year and it's a great time.
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Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
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I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
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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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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
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God is what's good in me.
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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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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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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
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One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.