Dresses Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at…

— Julie Klausner

“Dressed that way, he looked almost like any other New Yorker. It was only he nervous shifting of his eyes that hinted at discomfort,…

— Heidi Heilig

“Even in some smoky post-catastrophe Manhattan you could imagine him swaying genially at the door in the rags of his former uniform, the Barbours…

— Donna Tartt

“His attire was not something to be dismissed casually. It was what he happened to be wearing when he died. Mr. Wiggam must have…

— C.J. Archer

New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool.

— Maggie Rogers

“I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to young, penniless artists.…

— Edmund White

“He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong…

— John Connolly

“Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had…

— Henry James

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

— Barbara Holland

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress.

— Dillon Cooper

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life…

— Malcolm Cowley