Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.
You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. Of course, the Mist helped. People probably couldn't see Mrs. O'Leary, or maybe they thought she was a large,loud,very friendly truck. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.
I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.
I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs.
I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them.
For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. Ten months ago? Six years? Nowhere has the number zero been of more philosophical value than in the United States When it's 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. About us. Contact us. Photograph: Shutterstock 25 quotes about New York that fill us with immeasurable pride These luminaries capture the magic spark at the heart of the greatest city in the world.
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