"He steps on stage and draws the sword……" — Pete Hamill
"He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled."
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Pete Hamill
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26 Quotes by Pete Hamill
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What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live…
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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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The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
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In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
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The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or…
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The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly…
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The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace…
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Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.
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One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no…
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This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
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It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major…
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Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
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