Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, "Strictly Personal", was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. He also wrote an aperiodic feature called "Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things".
Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
Trending & Selected Quotes
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"Work and play are an artificial pair of opposites, because the best kind of play contains an element of work, and the most productive kind of work must include something of the spirit of play."
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
"The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the …"
"Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at."
"There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself."
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Timeline
1917
Born
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Died
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