A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
New York Quotes
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.
A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it.
The Americans are justly very proud of it, and its residents passionately attached to it – a young New Yorker, who had been in Europe for more than a year, was in the same sleigh with me. ‘There goes the old city!’ said he in his enthusiasm, as we entered Broadway; ‘I could almost jump […]
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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.
