John Gunther Quotes

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  All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  John Gunther

  Happiness, Happy, Food

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• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

  John Gunther

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Live while you live, then die and be done with.

  John Gunther

  Done, Dies

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• The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

  John Gunther

  Liars, Cameras, Our Time

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• What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

  John Gunther

  Thieves, What Is Life

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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.

  John Gunther

  Essence, Want, Firsts

  John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

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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.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

  John Gunther

  Water, West

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• I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

  John Gunther

  Time, Littles, Little Time

  JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”

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• God is what's good in me.

  John Gunther

  Glory

  JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”

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• He was trying to save both his faces.

  John Gunther

  Sarcastic, Trying, Faces

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• Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

  John Gunther

  Interesting, Community, Arkansas

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• France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

  John Gunther

  Country, World, Care

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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.

  John Gunther

  War, Cities, Shoes

  JOHN GUNTHER (1958). “INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY”

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• Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

  John Gunther

  Ironic, Superstitions, Facts

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• There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

  John Gunther

  Cutting, Selfishness, Generalization

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• One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

  John Gunther

  Golf, Balls, Green

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• Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

  John Gunther

  Coffee, Iraq, Orange

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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.

  John Gunther

  Cities, Forever, Chicago

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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.

  John Gunther

  Men, Impact, Color

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• [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

  John Gunther

  Respect, New York, Cities

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• Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

  John Gunther

  Kissing, Old And New

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