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Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.

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The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.

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There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

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I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

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One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

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The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

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The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.

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The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.

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There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

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Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1935

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