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 Dashiell Hammett
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
