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“Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?”
“I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah”
“He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it”
“Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Fla...”
“When the Brooklyn rain comes downhopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up”
“To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.”
“They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.”
“His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.”
“Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.”
“It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.”
“Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?”
“As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever ...”
“I had a blind date with a dentist â and he told me to come back in six months.”
“People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.”
“I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math â if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?”
“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.”
“It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything â staying in motion because sooner or later ...”
“Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.”
“When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.”
“I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.âĶI believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.”
