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“Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.”
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“On Fifth Avenue I went into the Trump Tower, a new skyscraper. A guy named Donald Trump, a developer, is slowly taking over New York, building skyscrapers all over town with his name on them, so I went in and had a look around. The building had the most tasteless lobby I had ever seen --- all brass and chrome and blotchy red and white marble that looked like the sort of thing that if you saw it on the sidewalk you would walk around it. Here it was everywhere --- on the floors, up the walls , on the ceiling. It was like being inside somebody's stomach after he'd eaten pizza.”
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“New York's a pretty city; the lights, they shine so bright,
New York's a pretty city; the lights, they shine so bright,
But I'd rather be in New Orleans, walkin' by candlelight.
- Sung by Genevieve Davis, "I Haven't Got a Dollar to Pay the House Rent Man"
Recorded in New Orleans in 1927.”
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New York's a pretty city; the lights, they shine so bright,
But I'd rather be in New Orleans, walkin' by candlelight.
- Sung by Genevieve Davis, "I Haven't Got a Dollar to Pay the House Rent Man"
Recorded in New Orleans in 1927.”
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