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“It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.”

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Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

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Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

This compilation showcases Dave Barry's wit and humor, featuring a selection of his most popular and entertaining pieces from his career as a humorist. more

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Dave Barry

Dave Barry is a renowned American humorist, born on July 3, 1947. His works are known for their unique humor style and satirical observations of everyday life. more

“If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.”

“Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.”

Knows Way Funny Night Hours Space Cities Car New York Humorous Musical Driving Sat Chairs New York City Parking Parking Space Car Driving

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.”

Thinking I Can Funny Three Walks Numbers New York Waste Humorous Areas Nuclear Neighborhood Lit Acres Nuclear Waste

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.”

Character School Funny Numbers Cities Opinion New York Pages Humorous Weakness Responsible Dues Plot New York City Telephones Clutter Reviewers Answering Machines

Author:Robert Benchley

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