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Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke föddes den 20 november 1908 och dog den 29 marts 2004 - English writer
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy.

Yrke och yrkesutövare

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. "Topless Pizza Lunch."

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

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