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“In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .”

New York Broken Arms Stores Snow Titles Hardware Shovels

Book:Duchamp: Passim : a Marcel Duchamp Anthology

Source: Duchamp: Passim : a Marcel Duchamp Anthology

“New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.”

World Cities New York Broken Broken Down Cities In The World

Author:Isaac Stern

“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.”

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Book:You Can Get There From here

Source: You Can Get There From here

“...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.”

Book New York Broken Judgment Newspapers Collections Establishment Hacks Broken Down

Author:James Purdy

“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.”