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Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill
American Journalist
Born: Jun 24, 1935
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I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened. Pete Hamill
You Distinction Between Make Genuine Always Mourn Nostalgia Happened Sentimentality Actually Things
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. Pete Hamill
Beautiful Morning Song Bird Sun Rising Misty Meaning Meaning Of Ask
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero. Pete Hamill
Work Me Hero Heroes Doctors Difficult Nurses Kind More Doing Than Infinitely Flamboyant Often Teachers
The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence. Pete Hamill
Group Jews States Hated Prone Blacks Klan Almost Most Catholics Terrorist Were Years Successful United United States Violence
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. Pete Hamill
Library Money Imagination Those Road House Without Begins Public Public Library Treasure
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. Pete Hamill
War Business World Police Ideology Negativity Anarchist Out Except Had Faded Drove Permanent Go Off Them Away Nowhere World War World War I Set
Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Pete Hamill
War Own Everybody Extraordinarily Carries Logistical Percent Only Pursuing Support Combat His Version American Heavy Vietnam Engaged Vietnamese Who Elephant Her
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them. Pete Hamill
Jews Marrying Both Until Italians Irish Them Then Fought Started
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. Pete Hamill
Good You Result Single Books Way Say London Could New Know Look Lot Dickens Very York Any New York Novel Novels Number
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. Pete Hamill
Home You People Sunday Made Changing Virtual Once Kids Out One Thing See Having More Wrong Instead Know Most Ball How Get Hang Going Childhood Childhoods Them Turn Much Notice Play Thing Things
The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes. Pete Hamill
Eyes Remember John About His Thing
There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know? Pete Hamill
Food You Nothing Strangers More Know Selling Than Human
Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. Pete Hamill
You Writing Journalism Sport Ball Golf Team Team Sport Novels
Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door. Pete Hamill
Buy You Down Aisle Out Record Record Stores Mahler Go Same Going Door Stores Holiday Billie Holiday
Sentimentality is a false sense of self. Pete Hamill
Sense Self False False Sense Sentimentality
One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf. Pete Hamill
Time Day Punch One Thing Brooklyn Like Learned Yard Clock Begins Get Just Working Stand Navy Thing Early
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 Business Generation Resume Before Would Perceived Take Take A Chance Talent Editors Arrival Hire Hired Were Manager Newspaper Personnel Who Last Chance
Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages. Pete Hamill
People Fans Out Records Allowances Bought Sinatra Wages Jagger Them
In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat. Pete Hamill
Good Class People Writing Worth Guarded Everyone Respectable Guild Eat Guys More Poets Had Failed Became Always Were Get Did Reporters Middle Middle Class Uptight Newspaper Much Paid Speaks Who Novelists Suddenly Tones
For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel. Pete Hamill
People Be True Giving Television Only Networks Argued True Years Want Might Defenders
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. Pete Hamill
Champion Others Sullivan Frankie Guys Gym Had Division Taken Over Lightweight Like Sport Around Least Were Heap His Mob Fixed Hanging Title Fights Slag Twice Loaned
An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson. Pete Hamill
Today Side Independent Would Brooklyn Only Football Football Team New Also Dodgers Built Hudson Just Stadium Might Team Baseball
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.' Pete Hamill
Writing Try Too Much Thought Style Before Beginning Too Type Back Gee Something Point Could Prose Longhand Tap Goes Getting Maybe Fiction Newspaper Much Should
If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual. Pete Hamill
Me You Think Enormous Programs Valid Individual Perfectly Depends Ask Help
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. Pete Hamill
Life Everybody Secret About Colombia He Talked How Private Private Life Gabriel Public Newspaperman Public Life Agree Originally
I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind. Pete Hamill
Care Mind Stars About Martin Steve Steve Martin His Movie Stories Not Interested Movie Stars Interested Less
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