“Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover.” HardGuyLeftFailingCenturyHard WorkCitizensFortuneCaughtCome UpCriminalsIndividualismRespectableDutchEmbodimentRuggedColonelsRugged Individualism Author:Luc Sante
“I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.” StatesFoundBlackCitiesNew YorkBirthCitizensNew York CityFlagsShelterRefugeeIntrigueExileNationalityNestsImprobableJuxtaposition Author:Luc Sante
