Cities Quote by Edmund Wilson

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

— John Updike

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

— Rita Ora

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at…

— James A. Baldwin

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

— Pete Hamill

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is…

— Jimmy Breslin

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at…

— Anonymous

“New York, he supposed, was home—the city of luxury and mystery, of preposterous hopes and exotic dreams.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely because there…

— Mccann Colum

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody…

— Ai Weiwei

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

— Sloane Crosley

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little…

— Sherwood Anderson

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson