Books Quote by Joseph Mitchell

“Undertown. You maybe don’t remember it. Your clothes don’t smell of it. Of the filth, the rot. The stinking hell of vapor and grime.…

— Julio-Alexi Genao

“Suddenly I found myself on Times Square. I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square;…

— Jack Kerouac

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather…

— Timothy Ferriss

“A young man propped up a ladder to capture photographs of the scene, yawning afterward. Death in Manhattan must be a rather boring affair,…

— Lydia Kang

“I'd been awake for thirty-six hours and driving for ten. Restless weeks, sleepless nights, and the decision stole into me like a thief. I…

— John Hart

“I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle of a…

— Jack Kerouac

“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself…

— Bill Bryson

“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

“One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare…

— Cornell Woolrich

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave…

— Raymond Carver

“A young man left Beartown in silence and when he came home again it was too late for words. You can’t look a gravestone…

— Fredrik Backman

“New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car…

— Tessa Bailey