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Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.
— Pete Hamill
I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
— Pete Hamill
We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
— Pete Hamill
Everybody needs an editor.
— Pete Hamill
Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
— Pete Hamill
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.
— Pete Hamill
You can't edit yesterday's paper.
— Pete Hamill
I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
— Pete Hamill
Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.
— Pete Hamill
My parents were Belfast Catholics.
— Pete Hamill
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.
— Pete Hamill
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
— 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.
— Pete Hamill
The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
— Pete Hamill
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
— Pete Hamill
Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
— Pete Hamill
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
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.
— Pete Hamill
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
— Pete Hamill
I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.
— Pete Hamill
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
— Pete Hamill
He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.
— Pete Hamill
You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.
— Pete Hamill
New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.
— 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.
— 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.
— Pete Hamill
There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.
— Pete Hamill
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
— Pete Hamill
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
— Pete Hamill
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.
— Pete Hamill
You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
— Pete Hamill
There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.
— Pete Hamill
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
— Pete Hamill
Writers are rememberers.
— Pete Hamill