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
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.)
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.
hypocrisy old-friends capacity
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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.
writing faster i-can
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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