"What libraries give you is all three tenses……" — Pete Hamill
"What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience."
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26 Quotes by Pete Hamill
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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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There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the…
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