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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
AYN RAND, The Virtue of Selfishness
New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
ROLAND BARTHES, In the Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse.
ELLEN DEGENERES, TV Guide, Nov. 21-27, 2005
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
PETER SHAFFER, New York Times, Apr. 13, 1975
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
ANGELA CARTER, New Society
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRY, "The Making of a New Yorker"
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
DAVID LETTERMAN, Late Show with David Letterman, Feb. 9, 1984
- I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
- Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
- New York, you got money on your mind
- And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
ART GARFUNKEL, A Heart in New York
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