COLUMNISTS

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1. A columnist has three main functions—to instruct, to amuse, or to make you mad. And in exercising the make-you-mad function he frequently pops off with some outrageous and flatfooted statement manufactured out of his own personal bias which is designed to arouse uproar and tumult among the readers.—ERNEST L. MEYERS, Three Functions of a Columnist
   

2. It would simplify matters to accept a columnist for what he is: merely an individual, no wiser, though more articulate, than most people who exists as a convenient peg upon which invited guests can hang the cloak of their prejudice, and either pat his head or kick him in the shins.—ERNEST L. MEYERS, Three Functions of a Columnist
   

3. They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

4. I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.—WALTER WINCHELL