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.
The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia - Pete Hamill
The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
- 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 mornin… - 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 mornin…
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. - Pete Hamill
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting. - Pete Hamill
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accou… - Pete Hamill
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accou…
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friend… - Pete Hamill
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friend…
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 livi… - Pete Hamill
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 livi…
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. - Pete Hamill
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the … - Pete Hamill
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the …
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