[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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![“If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/158/nat-hentoff-1615_bills_if-bill-shawn-liked-the-piece-then-he-wo_1950058.jpg)
![“[Margot Hentoff] thinks - first of all, she - this I hear from a lot of people beside her. She thinks that men have no business getting into this argument at all unless they're going to be pro-choice. But it turns out that a fair number of fetuses are male, and besides that, we are all one part of…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/060/nat-hentoff-1615_argument_margot-hentoff-thinks-first-of-all-she-t_42891.jpg)
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