If I'm really busy I'll be unsettled all day after seeing a quote with no citation. So I'm pleased that for this one it wasn't that hard to find a citation. From page 143 of the book "Hitch 22, a memoir"
In context, here is the complete sentence: "I appear in some obscure online dictionary of quotations for having said that I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information."
I find it extra-amusing that the quote is plausibly about not trusting what you read (from journalists), and when you read it in context it is not clearly a claim from him that he actually said this– it is a report that others claim he said this.
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If I'm really busy I'll be unsettled all day after seeing a quote with no citation. So I'm pleased that for this one it wasn't that hard to find a citation. From page 143 of the book "Hitch 22, a memoir"
In context, here is the complete sentence:
"I appear in some obscure online dictionary of quotations for having said that I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information."
I will bear it in mind that such things matter to you. I have the same experience, but irregularly.
I find it extra-amusing that the quote is plausibly about not trusting what you read (from journalists), and when you read it in context it is not clearly a claim from him that he actually said this– it is a report that others claim he said this.
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