Humans Quote by Pete Hamill

“Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.”

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“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.”

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Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in…

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“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

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“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on…

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More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

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“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter…

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There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set…

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The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

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Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

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This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

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“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of…

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“The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted it to do, I went…

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

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