Hoboken Quotes

• The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

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  Henry Miller

  Life   Pockets   Meals  

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

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  Ben Shahn

  Pregnancy   Desire   United States  

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• Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

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  George Saunders

  Hoboken   Imitating   Knows  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

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  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Light   Gold   Hoboken  

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• I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

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  Jared Leto

  Who I Am   Games   Play  

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• Hoboken is a neat place.

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  Daniel Pinkwater

  Hoboken   Neat  

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