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Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is about a dozen years ago, we got a "Man of the Year"… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
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“I love Israel, I go back all the time. I just love New York a little more. My workers are Arabs, my… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“And how was my time? Truth be told, not so great. At least, not as good as I’d been secretly hoping for.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I worked, long ago, in New York City, in construction, like many young men of the Mohawk Nation. I found that whites… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day,… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
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The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
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Woody Allen was the reason I wanted to move to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to make… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New… — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
“For a few years after leaving Cuba, Marita was looked after and protected by a mobster named Ed Levi. It was his… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“You’re with a girl. She’s brown-haired and side-swept. I imagine that she’s the kind of girl who can easily shop for jean… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk… — Lynn Steward Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Life is amazingly simplified,” she wrote in her journal, “now that the recalcitrant forsythia has at last decided to come and blurt… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“Flashes of memories: skimming over the water into darkness, salt on her lips, big boats lingering on the horizon, crates of liquor… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“a fertile agricultural valley about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast - and both valley and coast would serve as settings for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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