NEW YORK QUOTES II

quotations about New York

New York quote

I can't see heaven but I credit hell--
I live in New York so I know it well.

JOHN BRUNNER

Stand on Zanzibar


In order to love New York you have to hate it too. It's like a love affair--you don't hunger for it till it's out of reach, and when you've had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of it is unfamiliar, but, oh my god, the beauty of it.

CONNIE EISENSTAT

New York Magazine, November 10, 1980


Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world?

DINESH D'SOUZA

"10 things to celebrate: Why I'm an anti-anti-American", SFGate, June 29, 2003


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.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush.

LADY GAGA

Twitter post, June 11, 2010


No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

E. B. WHITE

"Here Is New York", Holiday

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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

"Mostly Harmless"

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New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.

DAVID B. LENTZ

The Fine Art of Grace


New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

ROLAND BARTHES

In the Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

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New York: A third-rate Babylon.

H. L. MENCKEN

attributed, Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture

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Everything in New York is for sale, including the honor of the City itself. To deny it would be considered dishonorable on the part of a New Yorker of the present day. Culture has been swallowed up by barter.

WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS

"On New York--A City In Process", Originality and Other Essays


Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York.

HARRY RUBY

attributed, Rand Lindsly's Quotations


New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.

SUSANNA MOORE

In the Cut

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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

JAMES M. CAIN

The Paris Review, spring-summer 1978

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In New York, we're out of road salt. So for the next big storm they have to use parmesan cheese.

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Show with David Letterman, October 31, 2011

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New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiator, the evangelist, the promoter, the actor, the trader and the merchant. It carries on its lapel the unexpungeable odor of the long past, so that no matter where you sit in New York you feel the vibrations of great times and tall deeds, of queer people and events and undertakings.

E. B. WHITE

Here is New York

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I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What I Saw in America

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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

ANGELA CARTER

New Society

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Perhaps more than in any other city, a sense of nervy self-preservation is rife here: people make studied efforts to avoid eye contact, and any unusual behavior clears a space immediately: the atmosphere of impending violence is sometimes sniffable.

MARTIN DUNFORD & JACK HOLLAND

New York City