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The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
— Pete Hamill
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Pete Hamill
writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
1935 – 2020
William Peter Hamill was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and the New York Daily News.
All Quotes by Pete Hamill
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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.
— Pete Hamill
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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.
— Pete Hamill
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The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
— 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.'
— Pete Hamill