“Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
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