You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ship’s cargo hold. Only the survivors got to breed, and they’ve been improving with every new litter. Smarter, faster, stronger. Getting ready to rule. Manhattan wouldn’t be the ï¬rst island they took over. Andrew Vachss
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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John Updike
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
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P.g. Wodehouse
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
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Woody Allen
The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in...
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Tara Leigh Cobble
But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.
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Zack Love
More Quotes By Andrew Vachss
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
