
“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”
Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)
Friendlyvision https://books.google.com/books?id=fXOYguSu1YUC&lpg=PA71&ots=YYCewibym8&dq=You%20gotta%20be%20willing%20to%20be%20lucky.%20fred%20friendly&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q=You%20gotta%20be%20willing%20to%20be%20lucky.%20fred%20friendly&f=false
“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”
Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)
“No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.”
Here is New York (1949)
“You gotta take your skin off, you gotta love so much that you go insane.”
Sammy.
Children at the Gate (1962)
Quoted in the New York Journal-American (12 April 1957) http://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&q=%22You+gotta+be+a+man+to+play+baseball+for+a+living+but+you+gotta+have+a+lot+of+little+boy+in+you+too%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage
Revolutionary
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)