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True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm ↗

— Lindsey Kelk

#humour #new-york-city #new-york-city

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#obsession #new-york-city

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which. ↗

— Amor Towles

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Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night… Crazed with avarice, lust and rum, New York, thy name's delirium. ↗

— Byron Rufus Newton

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Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year. ↗

— Kate Jacobs

#new-york-city #strangers #new-york-city

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark. ↗

— O. Henry

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