Quotes by Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

Baseball

Kids

Morning

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

House

Imagination

Library

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

Century

Cities

Voice

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Color

Red

Sound

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that’s why there are so many lies.

Lying

Too Much

Want

I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Beautiful

Nature

Song

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Ends

Knows

New York

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.

Love

Peace

War

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

Baby

Beach

New York

More than anything, it’s a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

Baseball

Games

May

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Ambition

Baby

Baseball

Beach

Beautiful

Book

Century

Character

Cities

Color

Country

Daughter

Ends

Fighting

Football

Games

Girl

Goal

Hair

Heavy

Home

House

Husband

Imagination

Joy

Kids

Knows

Library

Lonely

Long

Long Ago

Love

Love And Friendship

Lying

May

Mean

Morning

Nature

New York

Nostalgia

Novelists

Passion

Past

Peace

Player

Promise

Red

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Quotes by Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that’s why there are so many lies.

I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

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.

More than anything, it’s a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

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