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Engrave this quote in Our Store! |īefore they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. You have to be very fond of them to love them. It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together. To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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