Edmund White Quotes
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
