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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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I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How read more

I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you people feel like human beings tonight? Then he said How many of you feel like animals? And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question.

by Mitch Hedberg 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,

by Walt Whitman 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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New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.3. Driver read more

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.

by Dave Barry Found in: New york Quotes,
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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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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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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

by Mignon Mclaughlin Found in: New york Quotes,
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Stream of the living world
Where dash the billows of strife!--
One plunge in the mighty torrent
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Stream of the living world
Where dash the billows of strife!--
One plunge in the mighty torrent
Is a year of tamer life!
City of glorious days,
Of hope, and labour and mirth,
With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays
For the ships of all the earth!

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Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities
float
In sunset's golden read more

Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities
float
In sunset's golden and crimson dyes: I look and a great joy
clutches my throat!
Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands
fire-furled--
O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City in the World.

by James Oppenheim Found in: New york Quotes,
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