"Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred."

-- Buzz Bissinger

#New York Quotes #Hands Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?”

Source : "Food and Drink".
“Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.”
“No boyfriend wants to see their girlfriend in a video with a big, handsome black dude feeding his fingers into her mouth, do they? But that concept is my expression, and boyfriends have to deal with that, don't they?”
“Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.”
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”
“I don't think there's any problem with technology. Actually rewind that thought - there is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.”
“My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.”

Source : Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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