Pete Hamill Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers.
We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution.
Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
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.
He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.
I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.
Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices and hard work are no longer honored.
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.
When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
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.
Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
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.
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.
You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.
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.
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.
I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that.
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.