This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/ Whatever interests the rest interests me
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Walt Whitman
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where...
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Walter Kirn
In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.
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Brandon Stanton
When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.
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Adelle Waldman
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does
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Groucho Marx
More Quotes By Robert Benchley
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
