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I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ...

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I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when...

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America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, ...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tem...

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One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact ab...

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Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings,...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he de...

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By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorke...

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Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these k...

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It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with ...

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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wi...

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Oh ParisFrom red to green all the yellow dies awayParis Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the ...

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Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvi...

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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hy...

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And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bi...

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Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem

Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives...

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have di...

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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'...

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I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything i...

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These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t...

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Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life f...

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New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the ...

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It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, h...

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Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal ju...

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[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

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Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities