#york

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#level #nature #new #new yorker #often

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#city #every #exile #more #new

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#i think #new #new york #rest #soup

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#i #new #new york #spent #theater

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. ↗

— William Kunstler

#annoying #being #law #new #new york

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#being there #crazy #gets #i #i love

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage. ↗

— Bebe Neuwirth

#break #coast #east #east coast #every

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! ↗

— Edith Wharton

#hypocrisy #new-york #pulitzer-prize #social-criticism #age

Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when there was one), and mingled their shade with the steep roofs of desultory Dutch houses, and where pigs and chickens disported themselves in the gutter. These elements of rural picturesqueness have now wholly departed from New York street scenery; but they were to be found within the memory of middle-aged persons, in quarters which now would blush to be reminded of them. ↗

— Henry James

#age

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness. ↗

— Ruth Ozeki

#humanity #new-york-city #society #architecture