Melvin Maddocks Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Melvin Maddocks:

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#9e6d751e

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#1ed9b0f4

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#6f9fc841

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#3c22bc7c

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#be4c0406

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#db75604c

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
~Melvin Maddocks


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/melvin-maddocks-quotes/#d77904ea

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