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George Pelecanos

Is there a more violent book than the Bible?

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George Pelecanos

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they’re completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I’m not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don’t work out, and people do the best they can. But if you’re going to not be there from the very beginning, then don’t do it.

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George Pelecanos

Kids need a father around to make them whole. They need their mom.

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George Pelecanos

I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me – the music, women, cars, the culture.

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George Pelecanos

I get chills when I think that there’s a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that.

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George Pelecanos

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, ‘Am I going to be able to do this again?’

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George Pelecanos

I live in a bigger house, but I still live in the neighbourhood I grew up in.

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George Pelecanos

I always overtip. When I go to England, people think I’m stupid.

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George Pelecanos

Treme’ begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it’s a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It’s sort of a testament to, or an argument for why, a great American city like New Orleans needs to be saved and preserved.

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George Pelecanos

The Deuce’ takes a look at the remarkable paradigm of capitalism and labor: where money goes and how it’s routed; who has power and who doesn’t; who is exploited and who’s not.

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George Pelecanos

The Deuce’ came about when David Simon and I were put in contact with a guy who, along with his twin brother, owned a couple bars in Times Square.

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George Pelecanos

I am on my bike daily, and most of the locations, warehouses and specific residences from ‘The Cut’ were found while I was riding.

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