Years Quotes by Nat Hentoff

The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

— Nat Hentoff

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms…

— Nat Hentoff

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years…

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I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Nat Hentoff

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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William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected…

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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a…

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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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I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker…

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Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,…

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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…

— Nat Hentoff

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then…

— Nat Hentoff

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or…

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I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.…

— Nat Hentoff

If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more…

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Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause…

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When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or…

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A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of…

— Nat Hentoff

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of…

— Nat Hentoff