"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge." - Erwin Knoll, allegedly[1

"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge." - Erwin Knoll, allegedly[1] [1] It's widely attested to him, including on Wikipedia and in an aside in an old NYTimes article [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/27/us/required-reading-smith-on-lawyers.html https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/27/us/required-reading-smith...], but I couldn't track down the original source to verify it. It's possible it's falsely attributed, but on the other hand he wasn't super prominent -- editor of a major magazine for progressivism, called The Progressive, yes, but no Mark Twain -- and so there'd be little incentive to say it was his when you could call it Twain's.