American - Journalist | June 24, 1935 -
Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.
Pete Hamill
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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.
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What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
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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.
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Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
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Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
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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.
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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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