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“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if…

— E B White

“You know what I like about New York?” he said. “There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just…

— Graeme Simsion

“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all…

— Carolyn See

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…

— Colum McCann

“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet…

— Amor Towles

“I am extraordinarily proud of you and can't wait for the entire city of Boston to both love and fear you. Just remember that…

— Allison Raskin

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

— Donnie Wahlberg

“I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“New York. The greatest concentration of human potential in the history of the world. So much so that they had to start piling the…

— Adam Sternbergh

“New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.”

— Christy Hall

“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi