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He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

Joseph Mitchell

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

Joseph Mitchell

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.

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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

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

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

Joseph Mitchell

Joseph Mitchell

Born: July 27, 1908

Died: May 24, 1996 (aged 87)

Bio: Joseph Quincy Mitchell was an American writer best known for the work he published in The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on the fringes of society, especially in and around New York City.

Known for:

Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories (1992)
Joe Gould's Secret (1965)
The Bottom of the Harbor (1959)
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1943)
Apologies to the Iroquois (1959)

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