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“Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.”

New York Stranger Welcome

Author:Nancy Pickard

“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others”

Thinking World Trying Two Certain Turns Middle New York Goes On One Day Population Stranger Critical Staring Experts Leap Savages Insects Noon Bumps Density Swarms Grasshoppers

Author:John D. MacDonald

“I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”

Mind Made Lasts Race Millions New York Months Solitude Lonely Stranger Desert Midst Splendid

Book:Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography