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New York Quotes by John Updike
- Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
- New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
- Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by…
- When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
- The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
- New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
- My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays…
- New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
More New York Quotes
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. — Sebastian Bach
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't… — Ellen Barkin
- I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
- I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley
- When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. — Bernard Baruch