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“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet…

— Amor Towles

“And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put…

— Mark Helprin

“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery…

— Sylvia Plath

“All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because they were…

— Betty Smith

“New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for…

— David Levithan

“The idea that she would leave all of this - the rooms of the house once more familiar and warm and comforting - and…

— Colm Tóibín

“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail…

— David Carr

“Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.”

— Kate Christensen

“From the night into his high-walled room there came, persistently, that evanescent and dissolving sound - something the city was tossing up and calling…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest…

— Willie Morris