American - Journalist | December 20, 1902 - June 5, 1992
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
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