American - Journalist | June 24, 1935 -
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
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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.'
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I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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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.
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Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
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Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
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The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.
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I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.
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The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.
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Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.
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Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
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