Assuming Quote by Sloane Crosley

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

— John Updike

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is…

— Jimmy Breslin

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would…

— Michael Shannon

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

— Carla Hall

In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what they're reading,…

— Nick Kroll

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to…

— Genesis P-Orridge

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else.

— Paul Beatty

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes…

— Louis Kronenberger

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity…

— Anonymous

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union…

— Caroline Polachek

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they…

— Patton Oswalt

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and…

— Spalding Gray