

“It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir

“It cost me everything, absolutely everything, but maybe it's not love if it doesn't cost us everything.”
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“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?”
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“Your ancestral homeland is Queens, fuckface.”
― The Tender Bar
― The Tender Bar
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