Newyork Quotes

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“...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....”
New York Times

Yogi Berra
“Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator.”
Yogi Berra, Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player

Thomas Wolfe
“Outside, on Park Avenue, the people had begun to move along the sidewalks once more, the streets of the city began to fill and thicken. Upon the table by her bed the little clock ticked eagerly it's pulse of time as if it hurried toward some imagined joy, and a clock struck slowly in the house with a measured, solemn chime. The morning sun steeped each object in her room with causal light, and in her heard she said, "It is now".”
Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

Neil Gaiman
“If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab?”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Ennio Flaiano
“Eccomi da poche ore a New York, in questa città molto intima e geometrica, costruita in stile babilonese e abitata da americani”
Ennio Flaiano, Melampus: La metamorfosi amorosa di una donna

Sinclair Lewis
“These folks from New York are all so high and mighty, with their skyscrapers and banquets and everything that t if we don't guess they come from there when we first lay an eye on 'em, we just show ourselves as awful rubes. Oh, yes! Yes. You can always tell 'em by their touch-me-not ways.”
Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“The buildings in the area were diaphanous spreadsheets, their cells like oil slicks”
Zain Khalid