#city

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#serendipity #synchronicity #synchronicity

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#new-york-city

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is. ↗

— Henry Ford

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It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very lively, and never gay. When she glitters she is very, very bright, and when she does not glitter she is dirty. New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why. ↗

— Maeve Brennan

#love

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. ↗

— Amor Towles

#amor

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#new-york-city #survival #twilight #new-york-city

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?” “Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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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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People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new. ↗

— Lindsey Kelk

#la #new-york-city #new-york-city