Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit. - A. J. Liebling

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Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.

A. J. Liebling

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Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling (born October 18, 1904, in New York City; died December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Best known as a press critic, Liebling wrote the magazine's "Wayward Press" feature from 1945 on.

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Alternative Names: AJ Liebling • A.J. Liebling • A.J Liebling • A J Liebling • Abbott Joseph Liebling

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation—both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents—and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

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