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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| David Letterman (1947 - ) | Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. | |
| David Letterman (1947 - ) | New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. | |
| David Letterman (1947 - ) | People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. | |
| Donald Barthelme | This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor. - (on New York City) | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York? | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. - (on New York City) | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | The trouble with New York is that it has no nationality at all. It is simply a sort of free port -- a place, where the raw materials of civilization are received, sorted out , and sent further on. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | New York: A third-rate Babylon. | |
| Harry Hershfield | New York: Where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. | |
| Pete Hamill | The city of right angles and tough, damaged people. - (on New York City) | |
| Russell Baker | New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian |
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