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Letter "D" » David Halberstam Quotes
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«Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.»
Author: David Halberstam
«If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.»
Author: David Halberstam
«What happened very quickly was a move away from the bravery of the kids fighting.»
Author: David Halberstam
«I think you always go out and do books based on what you're curious about.»
Author: David Halberstam
«This award is very special because it recognizes what I think of as members of the infantry -- reporters who do the heavy lifting, even though they don't personally have the high public profile that some journalists in print and broadcast media attain. Their commitment to reporting difficult stories over the long haul, often against the conventional grain, is a tremendous public service, and the example of endurance and honor that they bring to the profession is a reminder of what journalism is about at its best.»
Author: David Halberstam
«There would be a very nice small book in it about another time and era in America, a kind of sweetness and friendship,»
Author: David Halberstam
«I think I got very lucky on this, ... The Red Sox players of that team just were particularly pleasant. Ted Williams was larger than life and exuberant and contentious and cantankerous, but great fun to be with.»
Author: David Halberstam
«[DiMaggio] could see it, and he understood completely where Harry Walker might hit the ball, ... Dominic will tell you that he still wonders if he could have gotten Slaughter at third. And Slaughter told him later, 'I never would have come home if you had been out there.' »
Author: David Halberstam
«I have no doubt he would have been a huge success no matter what he put his mind to,»
Author: David Halberstam
«I am made nervous, as someone who works in the same vineyard, by the idea of inventing himself as a fictional character, ... It seems unnecessary. It seems taking a major liberty. And the problem with it is if you invent the fictional character and you take this liberty, then the reader is going to think what other liberties?»
Author: David Halberstam
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