Friday, January 16, 2004

Quote for the Day

"What chiefly distinguishes the daily press of the United States from the press of all other countries pretending to culture is not its lack of truthfulness or even its lack of dignity and honor, for these deficiencies are common to newspapers everywhere, but its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion."

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, American Culture, pg. 203.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/16 at 08:29 AM
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Saturday, December 27, 2003

Quote for the Day

"We live in a land of abounding quackeries, and if we do not learn how to laugh we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm.  I have had too good a time of it in this world to go down that chute."

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, Preface, pg. xxiii

Posted by John Venlet on 12/27 at 03:54 AM
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