Michael Herr Quotes


It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.


Citations

Herr, Michael, and Guy Peellaert. The Big Room: Forty-Eight Portraits from the Golden Age. Summit Books, 1986.

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  • Born: April 13, 1940
  • Died: June 23, 2016
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Michael David Herr was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review. Novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."