Quotation by Edward Hoagland

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Weekend Guardian (London, Jan. 20-21, 1990)"Bragging For Humanity" American Heritage (New York, July 1988)"City Rat" Audience (Hollywood, March 1972)"City Walking" New York Times Book Review (June 1, 1975)"City Walking" published in New York Times Book Review (June 1, 1975)

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We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland (b. 1932), U.S. novelist, essayist. repr. In Heart's Desire (1988). "City Rat," Audience (Hollywood, March 1972).

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