The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
– Oscar Wilde
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- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly
- It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde
- Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. – Matthew Arnold
- “Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate. Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful. Read it with paranoia and you will feel confusion. Read it with empathy and you will feel compassion. Read it with love and you will feel flattery. Read it with hope and you will feel positive. Read it with humor and you will
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. – G. K. Chesterton
- “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” – W. Clement Stone
- The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don’t know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. – Gary Ackerman
- Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You’re better off having a vague sense of what’s going on and making your own way. – Eric Betzig
- Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You’re better off having a vague sense of what’s going on and making your own way. – Eric Betzig