John Gregory Dunne Quotes

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

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The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

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New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East

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