Pete Hamill Quotes

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• What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we…
• The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
• The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
• In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
• The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself…
• The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they…
• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely,…
• Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.
• One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some…
• This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
• It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
• Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women,…
• For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
• Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
• They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the…
• There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in…
• Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.
• I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are,…
• He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

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