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“Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.”

People Failing New York Moved Bars August

Author:Robert Quine

“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.”

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Author:Raymond Sokolov

“A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.”

Might Fans New York Raises Bars Charm Over It Cynical Raising The Bar

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.”

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Author:Vestal McIntyre

“If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.”

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Author:Reggie Jackson

“New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.”

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Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

“New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.”

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Author:Colin Quinn

“Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.”

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.”

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Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer, I wrote an article about it for GQ. Disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the East Village [of New York City], where we used to set the bar on fire to get customers away from us, and said, "That's a great movie for kids!" They made the fantastic Coyote Ugly movie, now legendary.”