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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.
Written by Pete Hamill
Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
Written by Pete Hamill
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
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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 war of this century.
Written by Pete Hamill
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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I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
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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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When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
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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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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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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
Written by Pete Hamill
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
Written by Pete Hamill
Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.
Written by Pete Hamill
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.
Written by Pete Hamill
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
Written by Pete Hamill
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
Written by Pete Hamill
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.
Written by Pete Hamill
If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.
Written by Pete Hamill
My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
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To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
Written by Pete Hamill
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
Written by Pete Hamill
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.
Written by Pete Hamill
I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.
Written by Pete Hamill
My parents were Belfast Catholics.
Written by Pete Hamill
When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.
Written by Pete Hamill
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
Written by Pete Hamill
I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
Written by Pete Hamill
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
Written by Pete Hamill
Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
Written by Pete Hamill
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
Written by Pete Hamill

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