Joseph Mitchell Quotes

• 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

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.99, Vintage

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• 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

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• 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

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

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• Tenía la costumbre de comentar a los camareros que no veía ningún sentido a mezclar whisky con agua, puesto que el whisky ya estaba mojado.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Water, Mixing, Whiskey

  Joseph Mitchell (2012). “Up in the Old Hotel”, p.411, Random House

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• 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

  Joseph Mitchell (2016). “Joe Gould's Secret”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• ...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Hate, Heart, Soul

  Joseph Mitchell (2016). “Joe Gould's Secret”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Ofertas

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• Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

  Joseph Mitchell

  Missing, Want, Life Is

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• 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

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• 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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