N Quotes
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“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something”
Source: Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York
“New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.”
“New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length of desire" )”
“New York is my favorite city in the world.”
“New York is my favorite city.”
“New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.”
“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.”
“New York is my, you know, second hometown.”
“New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.”
“New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.”
“New York is not a city to return to in defeat.”
Source: act one
“New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.”
“New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.”
“New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.”
“New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.”
“New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.”
“New York is obviously the capital of theater.”
“New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.”
Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
“New York is one of man's greatest achievements.”
“New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.”
“New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.”
“New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.”
“New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.”
Source: Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
“New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.”
“New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.”
“New York is safer than it has been - and it's getting safer. But it's never safe. As the financial and communications capital of the world, this is where terrorists want to make a statement, where they get the most bang for the buck.”
“New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.”
“New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.”
“New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.”
“New York is still where I live most of the time.”
“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”
Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.”
“New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy of the city there's a visceral experience a lot of people have because it's a time in their lives where they're just absorbing a lot. Things take on a significance that they might not otherwise.”
“New York is sweltering in the summertime.”
Source: In Limbo
“New York is terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“New York is the best food city in the world.”
“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”
Source: One man's America
“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”
Source: 1949-1959
“New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.”
“New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.”
“New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.”
“New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.”
“New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.”
“New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock”
“New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.”
“New York is the great stone desert.”
Source: The Melting Pot
“New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.”
“New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.”
“New York is the last true city.”
“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”