New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its charac...
As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashio...
The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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 are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkem...
Skyscraper National Park
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams
When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.
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