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From: shallit@gargoyle.UUCP (Jeff Shallit)
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Subject: Re: Quote source needed - "Only the dead know Brooklyn"
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 19:06:31 EST
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In article <11987@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> citrin@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Wayne Citrin) writes:
>I need the original source for the following quote:
>
>   "Only the <something> know Brooklyn."
>
>I've seen it three times in the last few months, the first time in a
>Mark Helprin piece in the NY Times Magazine as "Only the dead know 
>Brooklyn," and twice in this week's NY Times Book Review.  In the
>book review it appeared once as above as the title of a new mystery,
>and once in a similar form as the title of another review.
>
>Thanks.
> 
>Wayne Citrin
>(ucbvax!citrin)

Well, I'm not sure if it's the original quote, but there is a short
story by the American writer Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) called
"Only the Dead Know Brooklyn".  It is contained in the book
Thomas Wolfe - Short Stories.

Thomas Wolfe is NOT to be confused with his inferior namesake,
Tom Wolfe.

Jeff Shallit
University of Chicago