Pete Hamill Quotes
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If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.
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I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
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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, and they are beautiful.
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For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
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Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.
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One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
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The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
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Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
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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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Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.
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Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
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All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
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The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
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Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
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There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.
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Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
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The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
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The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
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People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
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There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.
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The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.