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Thomas W Higginson
: The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
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A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.
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The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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Thomas W Higginson:
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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