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“I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.”

Fall Walks Cities New York Spring

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.”

Mother Fall Three New York Advantage Sick Dues Absence Ice Instant Sickness Chocolate Cream Candy Ice Cream Riot Sauce Quentin

Book:Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.”

Fall Too Much New York Amount Seasons

Author:Wyatt Cenac

“New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.”

Way Humor Funny Remember Fall New York Civilization Falling Apart

Author:David Letterman

“The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.”

Long Stills Facts Running Fall Cities New York Computer Built Extraordinary Tolerance Enormous Bridges New York City Engineers Traffic Elephants Falling Apart Infrastructure Ants Subway

Author:Alan Weisman

“The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.”

“The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.”

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Author:A. B. Simpson

“I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.”

Wells Art Fall My Own Known New York Scene Ambition Chicago Well Known Institute My Ambition

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.”

Want Writing Years Stills I Can Stories Fall House Novel Figures New York Years Ago Falling Apart Upstate New York

Author:Craig Finn

“The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.”

People Writing Firsts Stories Fall Actors New York Moved Familiar Territory Confession Autobiography Grounded Personal Experiences Trajectory

Author:Debra Dean