“People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.” PeopleWayYearsBookLanguageGrowing UpGrowingCenturyDyingNew YorkThousandThousand Years20th CenturyProvincesMarryingOur Town Book:Our town: a play in three acts Source: Our town: a play in three acts
“In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.” PeopleWorldCharacterStoriesFacesSongAliveStreetsNew YorkAdventureThousandPureIncrediblesBlockEncountersLos AngelesFewerAutomobile Author:Joni Mitchell
“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.” PeopleHomeClearPiecesModernNew YorkThousandTravelHundredPrisonEightPreservesAbandonMuseumsTowersBostonSoapWhiskeyPostersPittsburgh Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.” KnowsWellsArtCitiesTalentNew YorkThousandAmbitionExcellenceWesternMinistersAnarchyNurtureSuggestionsMiraculousIngenuityExperimentationManifold Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
“If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.” PeopleIfsMenRealizingPoorLevelsCitiesConsciousnessSawsWeekStreetsNew YorkThousandAppreciatePopulationFiftyCoveredHomelessBusinessmanPoorestPostersLandlordCovered Up Author:Eric Drooker