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Books Quotes by Nat Hentoff

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Nat Hentoff’s reflections on books are thoughtful and grounded, echoing his journalistic clarity. Across eleven concise lines, he touches on the power of the written word, the role of literature in society, and the quiet discipline of reading. It’s a brief, honest snapshot for anyone who values his measured voice.

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I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

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I read like everybody - like every other writer.

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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

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I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

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I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally…

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[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what…

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This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a…

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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I…

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This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the…

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The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based…

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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I…

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My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned…

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There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to…

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[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have…

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My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because…

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My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when…

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We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

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[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each…

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The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible…

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I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of…

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If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject…

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[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.

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That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are…

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I read like everybody - like every other writer.

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Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

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