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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
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“I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
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