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“When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”

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Neil Simon

Neil Simon is an American playwright known for his humorous and satirical style. His works cover a wide range of themes from family life to social issues, with many adapted into films and television shows. Born on July 4, 1927, Simon's career spanned over half a century, with more than 30 plays to his name. more

“HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.”

Ifs Heart Care Song Break Broken Hearing Take Care Belonging

Author:Patrick Ness

“True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.”

Ifs Men Home Travel Manhattan

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”

People Ifs Would Be Language Imagination Quality Style New York Borders Greek Crossings Mixing Mercury Hermes Craftiness

Author:James Hillman

“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”

World New York

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”

Ideas Stories Silence New York Universal Profound Repose Noisy Roaring Incessant Swallowing Vortex Tumbling Whirlpools Great Money

Author:Walt Whitman

“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”

Race Cities Add Islands Internals Engines

Author:E. B. White

“We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.”

Running Gone Sand Quantity Definite Hourglass

Author:Pablo Picasso

“A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.”

Cold Immoral June

Book:THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)

Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)

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