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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God is what's good in me.
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
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Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
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Live while you live, then die and be done with.
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The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
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The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
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Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.