Quote by James Purdy Download Open image ““New York has collapsed.”” — James Purdy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You wanna know what’s happening to New York?” he asked. “I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.” — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.” — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.” — Kurt Wenzel Copy Share Image
“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
“Pleasure died forty years ago in America, perhaps further back, in a wave of carbon monoxide, gasoline, cigarettes for dames, the belief in everything… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a battle. You’re often so into it you don’t have any high ideals. You’re just doing it. I have all these… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
