American - Journalist | June 24, 1935 -
The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
Pete Hamill
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There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?
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Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
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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.
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Everybody needs an editor.
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You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
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The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
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Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
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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.
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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.
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Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.
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As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.
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