More and more too, the old name absorbs into me – Mannahatta, ‘the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.’ How fit a name for America’s great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, […]
New York Quotes
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation.
I had to move to New York for health reasons. I’m very paranoid and New York is the only place where my fears are justified.
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
When you leave New York, you ain’t goin’ nowhere.
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
The first thing that strikes a stranger in the Big Apple is a taxicab.
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
New York is a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
