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New-York  Quotes
New York City is as much a part of every ‘Law & Order’ ensemble as the actors.

—Dick Wolf

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Acting And ActorsNew-York
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Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the skies of Manhattan. Even as the ashes and ruin of this horrific act...

—Nathan Phelps

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AmericaBlind-FaithFred-Phelps
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Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing...

—Susan Anne Russell

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ArtDanceNew-York
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

—Bette Midler

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American ActressNew-York
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The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow’s, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath – and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and...

—F. Scott

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CityLightNew-York
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One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It’s not like if you’re in Los Angeles, where everyone’s so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and...

—Mindy Kaling

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CaliforniaCheerfulnessDepression
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Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him – perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from...

—Zack Love

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AnissaCollege-RomanceComing-Of-Age
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Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up...

—Bailey Bristol

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She went weak in the knees and could barely walk as she followed him, trembling with fear. Her hopes for a happy future with Jordan came crashing down. Whoever had told Jordan she was free...

—Dianne Harman

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New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it...

—Nora Roberts

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By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.

—E.B. White

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ComfortConvenienceNew-York
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You might find me cleverly clad, in black on black, at 28th and 7th Ave.

—Jonathan Lamas

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Late-NightsManhattanNew-York
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I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

—Pete Townshend

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GhostsNew-York
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Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual ant but in the collective ant mind. The trail of red taillights stretching...

—Abraham Verghese

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AfricaConsciousnessImmigrants
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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

—F. Scott

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New-YorkNew-York-City
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The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York’s ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the...

—Luc Sante

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HistoryNew-YorkNew-York-City
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It’s bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and – next thing you know – it seems as if there’s some intense connection with the person –...

—Zack Love

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AnissaCollege-RomanceComing-Of-Age
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This women’s orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

—Bailey Bristol

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Historical-RomanceNew-YorkOrchestra
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Oh ParisFrom red to green all the yellow dies awayParis Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the AntillesThe window opens like an orangeThe beautiful fruit of light(“Windows”)

—Guillaume Apollinaire

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The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

—Pat R

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ActressCat's-PajamasDepression
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As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything – pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and...

—E.L. Doctrow

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ExcessIntellectNew-York
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That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall...

—Kelly Cutrone

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CommunicationFashionFashion-Women
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Back in the “leather and lace” eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was a great time to be young and footloose on the streets of Manhattan—punk...

—Terri Windling

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1980s80s80S-Nostalgia
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America’s industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John...

—Bill Bryson

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Gilded-AgeMoneyNew-York
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I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here...

—James Agate

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…for years the first of May was the day all leases expired, and on that day mass migrations would take place, with families lugging eiderdowns and ancestral portraits through the streets, as if in parody...

—Luc Sante

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HistoryMovingNew-York
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Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone’s belongings strewn all over the landing...

—Cassandra Clare

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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something...

—Jean Baudrillard

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LossNew-YorkPostmodern
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In a supersonic jet, you’ll land before you take off. Your watch – if it’s working right – will go back. (It’ll stop if it’s not). You’ve made a journey forwards and backwards at the...

—Zdeněk Mahler

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New-YorkNew-York-City
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Take the first left.” For all I know, those people are still lost in Queens.

—Edward Conlon

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CopsDirectionsLost
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It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an...

—Moss Hart

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AchievementDreamingNew-York
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How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s...

—Valerie Baber

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Class-PrivilegeMale-PrivilegeNew-York
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I don’t know what to do about him, Sammy.” (Jackie)”It’s not what you do about him. It’s what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I’m assuming he has, and...

—Ali Novak

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BestfriendHilariousNew-York
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Human beings shouldn’t have to enter such doors, shouldn’t have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave...

—Cornell Woolrich

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Hard-BoiledNew-YorkNoir
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Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.

—Kathy Acker

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New-YorkNew-York-City
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I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky,...

—Amy Thomas

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ChocolateNew-YorkParis
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Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan Hale had loved America. Or even in...

—Jacob M.

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AmericaBrown-UniversityCountry
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I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

—Tom Winton

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FloridaInspirationalLost-Love
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Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

—Christy Hall

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HumorousNew-YorkWriters
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And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would...

—Joan Didion

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CitiesNew-YorkNostalgia
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Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how...

—yielded to

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199520062008
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As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests’ worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development...

—Carolyn Jess-Cooke

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AutumnEditingMargot
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It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding...

—Edith Wharton

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ChangeNew-YorkPretense
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You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe...

—Jennifer Echols

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EscapeHappy-EndingHorses
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I’m in love with New York. It matches my mood. I’m not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the...

—Anaïs Nin

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CityNew-YorkPoetry
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Harlem sleeps late.

—Jacob M.

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[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...

—Tom Wolfe

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1980sBuildingsDensity
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Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

—Ethan H.

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FamousNew-YorkNew-York-City
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A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

—Kelly Moran

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AloneKelly-MoranLoneliness
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And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you’re just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you’ll go to the very...

—Zack Love

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BeliefFamilyFatherly-Advice
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