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Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was QUOTES

Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was QUOTES

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

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

2 " The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News. "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

3 " I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn; "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

4 " In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million. "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

5 " I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters, "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

6 " I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined. "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

7 " know Brooklynites who have never been to Radio City Music Hall. "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

8 " and one of their lessons was that the essence of the work was the doing of it. "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

9 " In a city where human beings struggle for the privilege of sleeping over subway grates, "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

10 " see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency. "

― Pete Hamill , Piecework: Writings on Men Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was