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• What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the…
• 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.…
• The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a…
• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the…
• 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…
• 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…
• Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

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