"Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit."
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The New Yorker (March 28, 1953), quoted in David Remnick, "Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100", The New Yorker (March 29, 2004)
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A. J. Liebling
Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling (born October 18, 1904, in New York City; died December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Best known as a press critic, Liebling wrote the magazine's "Wayward Press" feature from 1945 on.
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