“Walk the Bowery under the El at night and all you feel is a sort of cold guilt. Touched for a dime, you try to drop the coin and not touch the hand, because the hand is dirty; you try to avoid the glance, because the glance accuses. This is not so much personal menace as universal — the cold menace of unresolved human suffering and poverty and the advanced stages of the disease alcoholism.”
― Here Is New York
― Here Is New York
“I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.”
― Mornings on Horseback
― Mornings on Horseback
“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.”
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