John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and author.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
God is what's good in me.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.
The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
Live while you live, then die and be done with.
Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
He was trying to save both his faces.
What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.