"No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."
- E.B. White
"It was so easy living day by day; out of touch with the rhythm and blues. But now I need a little give and take. The New York Times, The Daily News."
- Billy Joel
"It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young."
- Joan Didion
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual."
- Angela Carter
"Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men."
- Sarah Jessica Parker
"New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't."
– Jay Z
"One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack."
- Aziz Ansari
"I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited."
- Greta Gerwig
"One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life."
- Miuccia Prada
"It's up to you, New York, New York."
- Frank Sinatra
"Oh, I love New York."
- Holly Golightly
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DEAD
PoetryA young woman passes away unexpectedly, but she isn't entirely gone. Inside a hidden shoebox, she has left countless notes. Some for her friends, some for her family, some for her lover, and some for those she never got the pleasure of meeting. Th...
