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Pete Hamill Quotes

American - Journalist | June 24, 1935 -

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

New York New Multiple York

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

New York New Know Out Who Town

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

Experience Me Growing Up Tough Think

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.

War World Will World War II Head

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.

Irish Started Jews Italians Until

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.

Good New York Result You Look Know

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

Hate Wake Up Sound Without Up Alarm

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.

Home Childhood People You Play Know

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.

Door Tough Easy Tough Guy Guy Going

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

Time Hate Long Long Time Us Been

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.

Business Police War World Negativity

The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.

Eyes Remember I Can His About Thing

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