Quotes
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. – Alistair Cooke
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Every hour is rush hour in New York.
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Manhattan. Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and ceme – Albert Camus... READ MORE >
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There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? – Woody Allen
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. – Alistair Cooke
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The currency of New York is convenience. I want it now, I want it near, and I want it for next to nothing.
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For New Yorkers standing still is like being a fish out of water.
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One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. – Tom Wolfe
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Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an isl – Albert Camus... READ MORE >
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...Skyscraper National Park. – Kurt Vonnegut
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Only in New York is 3 blocks to the nearest ATM unconscionably far
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New York...City of Bags.
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In New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish. – Lenny Bruce
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. – Russell Baker
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. – Irving Berlin
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The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. – E.B. White
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I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified. – Anita Weiss
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway that belongs to me because I – Truman Capote... READ MORE >
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else in the world have to be, in some sense, kidding. – John Updike