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    Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream.
    The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs
    lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous;
    some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices
    hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the
    wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city.
    But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant
    parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many
    colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended
    like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up
    the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained,
    of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There
    below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from
    the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill,
    enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of
    it came up to him and went into his blood.

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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, read more

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that
Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call read more

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that
Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it,
you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when
they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky
stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what
they sing.

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New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor
rubberendi.

New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor
rubberendi.

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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness,
he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating
completeness, that sophisticated read more

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness,
he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating
completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced
poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in
his greatness.

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Just where the Treasury's marble front
Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--
Where Jews and Gentiles most read more

Just where the Treasury's marble front
Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--
Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont
To throng for trade and last quotations;
Where, hour, by hour, the rates of gold
Outrival, in the ears of people,
The quarter-chimes, serenely tolled
From Trinity's undaunted steeple.

by Edmund C. Stedman Found in: New york Quotes,
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Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the read more

Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;
The varied and ample land,--the South
And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,
And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.
- Walt Whitman,

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I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no read more

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

by Ani Difranco Found in: New york Quotes,
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New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, read more

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

by Emo Philips Found in: New york Quotes,
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

by O. Henry Found in: New york Quotes,
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