Collapsed Quote by James Purdy

“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

“No, we're in New York”

— Stacy Claflin

“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

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

— Le Corbusier

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

— Elizabeth Winder

“IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.”

— Colson Whitehead

“I have officially, absolutely collapsed inside.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“New York's alright, if you want to freeze to death.”

— Lee Vin

“I am not sure I love New York.”

— Édouard Levé

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

— Kurt Wenzel

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

— Mason Cooley

“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