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A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Nose
#Outsider
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#Whatever
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The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Gas Station
#Gas
#Self-Image
#Sports
#Up
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
- John Gregory Dunne
#About
#History
#People
#Social
#War
The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Accountability
#Always
#Beyond
#Rich
Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Baseball
#He
#New
#Remembered
#Who
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Outside
#Retirement
#Sports
#Star
#World
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Get
#Meet
#Nonfiction
#People
#Would
Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
- John Gregory Dunne
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#Class
#Communism
#Vietnam
#War
I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Like
#Myself
#Sharp
#Short
#Sound
There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Point Of View
#Point
#Quit
#Time
#View
All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Dangerous
#Just
#Life
#Place
#Wonderful
I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Cops
#I Love
#Justice
#Love
#System
Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Along
#Dangerous
#Get
#Midwest
#New
Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Army
#Being
#Everyone
#Like
#Me
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
- John Gregory Dunne
#American
#History
#Life
#Long
#Service
Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Labor
#Like
#Mind
#Pipe
#Writing
In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
- John Gregory Dunne
#Earth
#Earthquake
#Moves
#Sports
#World
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