First-sentence Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image ““Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.”” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare First-sentence
“Real New York and imaginary New York aren't easily separated. The stuff of a city isn't only material; it's spiritual as well.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.” — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
“Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes… — Richard Rhodes 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
“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.” — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan, whichever came… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It (NY) was like the city that Lot left behind and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
