“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.”
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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
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