Quote of the Hour: The Writing Life

I did not then understand his elastic use of datelines; he holds that a writer is entitled to use in perpetuity the dateline of any place he has ever been in. Thus, in the summertime he will sometimes begin a column "Clubhouse, Belmont Park," when he has in fact spent the afternoon on the Hudson River, on the deck of a Bear Mountain steamer. "I have been to Belmont," he says. "I know what it is like."

 - A.J. Liebling, "Yea Verily," in The Jollity Building (p.478 of The Sweet Science and Other Writings)