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Pete Hamill

Date of Birth:

24-Jun-1935

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United States

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Pete Hamill was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. in 1935, the oldest of seven immigrant children from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Catholic schools, left school at the age of 16 to work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a metalworker, and then moved to the United States Navy. While working in the Navy, he completed his high school studies. GI educational benefits are utilized. Bill of Rights, studied at Mexico City College in 1956-1957, studied painting and writing, and later went to the Pratt Institute.

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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.
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If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
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The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
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I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
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Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.
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There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
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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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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
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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.'
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