If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

James Hillman
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  3. In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. - Brandon Stanton

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  5. Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does - Groucho Marx

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  2. I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

  3. ..you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what...

  4. The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

  5. What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

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