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In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
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What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
Pete Hamill
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The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
Pete Hamill -
Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.
Pete Hamill -
In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.
Pete Hamill -
You can't edit yesterday's paper.
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I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
Pete Hamill