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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.
- 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.
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- The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. — Mario Batali