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John Gunther

30 August 1901-29 May 1970

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day — all happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

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Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

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France is the most civilized country in the world and it doesn't care who knows it.

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Journalism is a field in which the journalist is concerned, firstly, with knowing what they want to know, and secondly, with searching out someone to tell it to them.

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New York City is a place that meets the most severe test that may be applied to the definition of a metropolis. It stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

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New York City is at once the climactic synthesis of America, and yet the negation of America in that it has so many characteristics called unAmerican.

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New York City is the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendours of contemporary civilization

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Poland is a place where, if Bo Derek should walk along the street in nothing but shoes, people would look at her shoes first.

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Vienna is a city with nine daily newspapers, more than any American city by a large margin, which nobody actually buys, but everyone reads in their rattan frames in the coffee house.