Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
New York Quotes
A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
New York: Skyscraper National Park.
If it ain’t broke, it ain’t breakable.
That frightful cyclone of electricity and machinery called New York.
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, “I took a taxi.”
Of course, another explanation for people not availing themselves of professional help is that New Yorkers are too disoriented to know they’re disoriented. Anyway, and to the distress of those selling therapy, they don’t want the therapy, even when someone else is paying. A measure of generalized craziness is what makes New York New York.
What else can you expect from a town that’s shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
Ah! Some love Paris and some Purdue. But love is an archer with a low IQ. A bold bad bowman and innocent of pity. So I’m in love with New York City.
I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
