{"author":"Pete Hamill","author_id":"Pete+Hamill","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["american","want","mafia "],"id":2892,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["future","creation","kids "],"id":14248,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["football","diamonds","place "],"id":24293,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","nostalgia"],"id":104751,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["race","skin-color"],"id":105367,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["powerful","nationalism "],"id":150604,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["philosophy"],"id":160789,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["work","day","writing "],"id":197041,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["inspirational","nature","pete-hamill"],"id":197539,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"},{"text":"In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'.","author":"Pete Hamill","tags":["welcome","me","blood "],"id":279129,"author_id":"Pete+Hamill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}