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“There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”
“Im willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isnt somebodys thumb.”
“I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.”
“That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.”
“That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.”
“That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.”
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisionswe draw a card, and we must decide right then and ...”
“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life ...”
“Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.”
“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.”