The primary postulates of all the rest of the world are its familiar jokes. A city apart (New York), it is breeding a race apart. Is that race American? Then so is a bashi-bazouk American. Is it decent? Then so is a street-walker decent. But I don’t think that it may be reasonable denounced as […]
New York Quotes
Years later, when we saw the lights going out, one after another, in the great factories that had stood like mountains for generations, when we saw the gates closing and the conveyer belts turning still, when we saw the roads growing empty and the streams of cars draining off, when it began to look as […]
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible, because it is large enough to be incurious.
When people start writing about New York, they tend to go get a thesaurus and find all the synonyms for dysfunctional.
There is little in New York that does not spring from money. It is not a town of ideas; it is not even a town of causes. But what issues out of money is often extremely brilliant, and I believe that it is more brilliant in New York than it has even been anywhere else.
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
New York looks as ever: stiff, machine-made, and against nature. It is so mechanical there is not the sense of death.
One man prefers the Republic because it pays better than Bulgaria. Another because it has laws to keep him sober and his daughter chaste. Another because the Woolworth Building is higher than the cathedral at Chartres. Another because, living here, he can read the New York Evening Journal. Another because there is a warrant out […]
Now folks, all I know is what little news I read every day in the papers. I see where another wife, out on Long Island, here in New York, shot her husband. Season’s opened a month earlier this year. Never a day passes in New York without some innocent bystander being shot. You just stand […]
