T.J. English > Quotes

“Life is many things, but most of all, it is disturbing.”
― T.J. English

“Whenever I encounter boozing, whoring, gambling, drug taking, or a dead body, I call it research and write it off on my taxes.”
― T.J. English

“Murder Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate,”
― T.J. English, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba & Then Lost it to the Revolution

“In New York, Luciano and Costello delivered cash to City Hall and police headquarters through Joe Cooney, a freckle-faced Irish American bagman they sometimes referred to as Joe the Coon.”
― T.J. English, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

“Whenever I encounter boozing, whoring, gambling, drug taking, or a dead body, I call it research and write it off on my taxes." -- T.J. English”
― T.J. English

“there was a choice of roast breast of flamingo, tortoise stew, roast tortoise with lemon and garlic, and crayfish, oysters, and grilled swordfish from the nearby fishing village of Cojímar. There was also grilled venison sent by a government minister from Camagüey who owned livestock and, the most obscure delicacy of all, grilled manatee. The guests drank añejo rum and smoked Montecristo cigars.”
― T.J. English, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba & Then Lost it to the Revolution

“If you don't understand the history of organized crime in America, you don't understand America.
-- T.J. English”
― T.J. English

“If you don't understand the history of organized crime in America, you don't understand America.”
― T.J. English

“Almost everthing we know about contemporary public life, from wars to public policy to political affairs, etc -- is propaganda. Truth, if you care to know it, is retospective. It can only be found in history.”
― T.J. English

“Back during Prohibition and into the 1930s, one of the preeminent numbers bankers in New York City was Alejandro “Alex” Pompez, a Cuban American born in Key West and raised in Ybor City.”
― T.J. English, The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld

“The Fighting 69th,”
― T.J. English, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

“12th, a gray, ominous day, and the large, wood-paneled courtroom was packed. Since the Westies trial first began two weeks earlier, Hochheiser had talked many times with the defense attorneys”
― T.J. English, The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob

“It takes a special kind of ignorance to look in the face of history and learn nothing.”
― T.J. English

“Each in his own time and in a cool and dispassionate way will start getting his zero. An infinite zero that will adorn their soon to be forgotten tomb . . . Cemeteries are very big and we have more than enough time to fill them.”
― T.J. English, The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld

“For one thing, no autopsy was conducted. All”
― T.J. English, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

“Re: crime. Writing about it is what keeps me from doing it.”
― T.J. English

“It takes a special kind of ignorance to look in thew face of history and learn nothing.”
― T.J. English

“Re: crime. Writing about it is what keeps me from dointg it.”
― T.J. English

“insoigents”
― T.J. English, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

“McLean,”
― T.J. English, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

“Almost everything we know about contemporary public life, from wars to public policy to political affairs, etc, is propaganda. Truth, if you care to know it, is retrospective. It can only be found in history.”
― T.J. English

“If you can't appreciate what was, you will never understand what is.”
― T.J. English