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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

~John Gregory Dunne

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In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

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Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.

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A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.

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Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.

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I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

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Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.

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I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

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I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.

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What the world does not need is another script or television writer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 25th, 1932

Died: December 30th, 2003

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