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New York

«New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.»
Author: Lewis Mumford (Writer) | About: Cities, New York | Keywords: City of New York, model
«New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.»
«On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.»
Author: Paul Merton | About: New York | Keywords: central, Central Park, mug, mugging, mugs, my first, park
«New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there»
Author: Robert Persig | About: New York | Keywords: New York, somehow, York
«New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States»
«One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years»
«New York, the nation's thyroid gland.»
«New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.»
«New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.3. Driver hates you.»
«Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does»
Author: Groucho Marx (Actor, Comedian, Singer) | About: New York | Keywords: New York, practically, York

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