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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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When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

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Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.

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Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.

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The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

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Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

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My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

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Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

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People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1935

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