Joseph Mitchell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Spiritual #Art #New York
He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Water #Mixing #Whiskey
Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Waste #Illusion #Found
...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Hate #Heart #Soul
I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#New York #Home #Cities
The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Baby #Loneliness #Men
I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Deals
Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Missing #Want #Life Is
When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Octopus #Lobster #West Coast
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Dad #World #Cotton

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