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Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker. ~ Trevor Moore
Yorker quotes by Trevor Moore
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. ~ Ed Askew
Yorker quotes by Ed Askew
I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races. ~ Toni Morrison
Yorker quotes by Toni Morrison
I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different. ~ Mike Binder
Yorker quotes by Mike Binder
I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.' ~ J. Cole
Yorker quotes by J. Cole
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. ~ Meg Rosoff
Yorker quotes by Meg Rosoff
You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. ~ Edward Rutherfurd
Yorker quotes by Edward Rutherfurd
I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons. ~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
Yorker quotes by Bruce Eric Kaplan
I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Yorker quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. ~ Edward Said
Yorker quotes by Edward Said
I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother. ~ Dan Jenkins
Yorker quotes by Dan Jenkins
I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds. ~ Maggie Wheeler
Yorker quotes by Maggie Wheeler
Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000. ~ Robert Mankoff
Yorker quotes by Robert Mankoff
To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion. ~ Donald Trump, Jr.
Yorker quotes by Donald Trump, Jr.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. ~ Jason Alexander
Yorker quotes by Jason Alexander
You don't get it, do you? This isn't 'good cop, bad cop.' This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble. ~ Shane Black
Yorker quotes by Shane Black
My model, such as it is, is a mentorship model, which is to say that I care personally, and I involve myself personally/emotionally with the work of each student, and I try to make it such that they want to reach for more, do better, risk more, try new things, abandon limited objectives, individuate, and so on. For me it is personal, to the best of my ability, and it is about making more of the writer and of the writer's task in each case. I also think it's possible to do this, to teach in this way, in a classroom free of rancor and backbiting and competitive jostling. So: my class should be a place of peace, a place where anything is possible, where the code of realism is in disrepute, and the worst thing you can say, the absolutely verboten thing, is the phrase: The New Yorker. ~ Rick Moody
Yorker quotes by Rick Moody
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. ~ Robert Mankoff
Yorker quotes by Robert Mankoff
I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching! ~ Blythe Danner
Yorker quotes by Blythe Danner
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. ~ Vanessa Ferlito
Yorker quotes by Vanessa Ferlito
I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish. ~ Adrian Tomine
Yorker quotes by Adrian Tomine
Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker. ~ Adrian Tomine
Yorker quotes by Adrian Tomine
Thou shalt not live within thy means
Nor on plain water and raw greens.
If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
And take short views. ~ W. H. Auden
Yorker quotes by W. H. Auden
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people. ~ Deniz Gamze Erguven
Yorker quotes by Deniz Gamze Erguven
If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change. ~ Dave Barry
Yorker quotes by Dave Barry
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. ~ Moby
Yorker quotes by Moby
I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker' ... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.' ~ Emma Donoghue
Yorker quotes by Emma Donoghue
She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work. Getting to the office was a nervous ordeal. If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. If she arrived one minute after, she worried because that made her the logical scapegoat of the boss if he happened to be in a bad mood that day. ~ Betty Smith
Yorker quotes by Betty Smith
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. ~ Zoe Kravitz
Yorker quotes by Zoe Kravitz
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. ~ Daniel Alarcon
Yorker quotes by Daniel Alarcon
Who am I? Who am I?"
"You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs. You're a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; you volunteer for a food kitchen. You're a swimmer. You're a baker. You're a cook. You're a reader. You have a beautiful voice, though you never sing anymore. You're an excellent pianist. You're an art collector. You write me lovely messages when I'm away. You're patient. You're generous. You're the best listener I know. You're the smartest person I know, in every way. You're the bravest person I know, in every way. You're a lawyer. You're the chair of the litigation department at Rosen Pritchard and Klein. You love your job; you work hard at it. You're a mathematician. You're a logician. You've tried to teach me, again and again. You were treated horribly. You came out on the other end. You were always you."

"And who are you?"
"I'm Willem Ragnarsson. And I will never let you go. ~ Hanya Yanagihara
Yorker quotes by Hanya Yanagihara
Toward nightfall, Khrenov's temperature had risen. The thermometer was warm, alive - the column of mercury climbed high on the little red ladder. For a long time he muttered unintelligibly, kept biting his lips and gently shaking his head. Then he fell asleep. Natasha undressed by a candle's wan flame, and saw her reflection in the murky glass of the window - her pale, thin neck, the dark braid that had fallen across her clavicle. She stood like that, in motionless languor, and suddenly it seemed to her that the room, together with the couch, the table littered with cigarette stubs, the bed on which, with open mouth, a sharp-nosed, sweaty old man slept restlessly - all this started to move, and was now floating, like the deck of a ship, into the black night. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Yorker quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling. ~ Stephen Malkmus
Yorker quotes by Stephen Malkmus
To be a New Yorker is to be away from the city and feel like you are missing something ~ Bill Hayes
Yorker quotes by Bill Hayes
It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time. ~ Liza Donnelly
Yorker quotes by Liza Donnelly
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. ~ Salman Rushdie
Yorker quotes by Salman Rushdie
Dillinger is an epicure, serenely removed from such soft and bourgeois considerations as loyalty and disloyalty, and her only anxiety in life is to better herself aesthetically. ~ The New Yorker
Yorker quotes by The New Yorker
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately. ~ Robert Warshow
Yorker quotes by Robert Warshow
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. ~ Robert Moses
Yorker quotes by Robert Moses
I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it. ~ Jay Maisel
Yorker quotes by Jay Maisel
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust. ~ Laurence J. Peter
Yorker quotes by Laurence J. Peter
I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker." ~ Adrian Tomine
Yorker quotes by Adrian Tomine
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.' ~ Paul Engle
Yorker quotes by Paul Engle
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. ~ Hope Davis
Yorker quotes by Hope Davis
I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian? ~ Craig Ferguson
Yorker quotes by Craig Ferguson
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell. ~ Tom Spanbauer
Yorker quotes by Tom Spanbauer
The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added power now. As a kid, the psalmist (or psalmists) had seemed remote to me, the Psalms long prayers which sometimes rose to great poetry but often had simply to be endured. For a middle-aged man, the psalmists' moods and feelings came alive. One of the voices sounded a lot like a modern New Yorker, me or people I knew: a manic-depressive type A personality sometimes up, more often down, sometimes resigned, more often pissed off, railing about his sneaky enemies and feckless friends, always bitching to the Lord about the rotten hand he'd been dealt. That good old changelessness. ~ Tony Hendra
Yorker quotes by Tony Hendra
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' ~ Diane Mott Davidson
Yorker quotes by Diane Mott Davidson
In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.' ~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
Yorker quotes by Bruce Eric Kaplan
You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker. ~ Chris Diamantopoulos
Yorker quotes by Chris Diamantopoulos
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things. ~ Mark O'Donnell
Yorker quotes by Mark O'Donnell
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. ~ Nicole Holofcener
Yorker quotes by Nicole Holofcener
Have a culminative look at just one snippet from Ipolit's famous "Necessary Explanation" in The Idiot:

"Anyone who attacks individual charity," I began, "attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity. But the organization of 'public charity' and the problem of individual freedom are two distinct questions, and not mutually exclusive. Individual kindness will always remain, because it is an individual impulse, the living impulse of one personality to exert a direct influence upon another....How can you tell, Bahmutov, what significance such an association of one personality with another may have on the destiny of those associated?"

Can you imagine any of our own major novelists allowing a character to say stuff like this (not, mind you, just as hypocritical bombast so that some ironic hero can stick a pin in it, but as part of a ten-page monologue by somebody trying to decide whether to commit suicide)? The reason you can't is the reason he wouldn't: such a novelist would be, by our lights, pretentious and overwrought and silly. The straight presentation of such a speech in a Serious Novel today would provoke not outrage or invective, but worse-one raised eyebrow and a very cool smile. Maybe, if the novelist was really major, a dry bit of mockery in The New Yorker. The novelist would be (and this is our own age's truest vision of hell) laughed out of town. ~ David Foster Wallace
Yorker quotes by David Foster Wallace
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts. ~ William Shawn
Yorker quotes by William Shawn
It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries. ~ Stephanie Clifford
Yorker quotes by Stephanie Clifford
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ~ John Updike
Yorker quotes by John Updike
It wasn't any one writer or article he was worried about, but the font. The meaning embedded, at a preconscious level, by the look of the magazine; the seal, as he described it, that the typography and layout put on dialectical thought. According to Perkus, to read the New Yorker was to find that you always already agreed, not with the New Yorker but, much more dismayingly, with yourself. I tried hard to understand. Apparently here was the paranoia Susan Eldred had warned me of: the New Yorker's font was controlling, perhaps attacking, Perkus Tooth's mind. To defend himself he frequently retyped their articles and printed them out in simple Courier, an attempt to dissolve the magazine's oppressive context. ~ Zadie Smith
Yorker quotes by Zadie Smith
Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness. ~ Carol S. Dweck
Yorker quotes by Carol S. Dweck
When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow. ~ Garrison Keillor
Yorker quotes by Garrison Keillor
Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions. ~ The New Yorker
Yorker quotes by The New Yorker
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker. ~ Parker Stevenson
Yorker quotes by Parker Stevenson
I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. ~ Jon Oringer
Yorker quotes by Jon Oringer
[Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered. ~ The New Yorker
Yorker quotes by The New Yorker
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. ~ Dorothy Parker
Yorker quotes by Dorothy Parker
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.' ~ David Sedaris
Yorker quotes by David Sedaris
Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. ~ Roz Chast
Yorker quotes by Roz Chast
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. ~ Joan Collins
Yorker quotes by Joan Collins
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three. ~ Laurie Anderson
Yorker quotes by Laurie Anderson
Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York. ~ Corey Stoll
Yorker quotes by Corey Stoll
British rule also left its mark on Hong Kong in a more important and sustainable way. It led to the rise of a people that remains quintessentially Chinese and yet share a way of life, core values and an outlook that resemble at least as much, if not more, that of the average New Yorker or Londoner, rather than that of their compatriots in China. ~ Steve Tsang
Yorker quotes by Steve Tsang
Even if I never get out of Clover, even if I never get into Northwestern or write for the New Yorker, even if these are just delusions occupying my time, thank God they are, because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't life worth living. ~ Chris Colfer
Yorker quotes by Chris Colfer
It's like my throat's caving in on itself. But I have to channel my inner New Yorker - cool and nonchalant. I shoot him a tentative grin. Deep Breath. "That's a big package."
And... shit.
The words tumblr out. "I don't mean package. Just. Your box. Is big." I hold my hands apart to demonstrate. Because apparently that's the way to prove it's not an innuendo. By spreading my hands out dick-measuringly.
Box Boy furrows his brow.
"Sorry. I don't... I swear I don't usually comment on the size of other guys' boxes."
He meets my eyes and smiles, just a little. "Nice tie," he says. ~ Becky Albertalli
Yorker quotes by Becky Albertalli
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another. ~ Steve Martin
Yorker quotes by Steve Martin
Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it. ~ Chris Jordan
Yorker quotes by Chris Jordan
I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe?
Or maybe just the gym will be enough. ~ Sophie Kinsella
Yorker quotes by Sophie Kinsella
New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Yorker quotes by Nicholas Sparks
Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don't in don't shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people
are right more than half the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths,the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn't been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It's the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. ~ E.B. White
Yorker quotes by E.B. White
Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue] ~ Paul McHugh
Yorker quotes by Paul McHugh
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it. ~ Jacqueline Woodson
Yorker quotes by Jacqueline Woodson
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.' ~ Gillian Jacobs
Yorker quotes by Gillian Jacobs
I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years. ~ Adam Rapp
Yorker quotes by Adam Rapp
We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy. ~ William Shawn
Yorker quotes by William Shawn
And these years later, when I think of that essay, what I remember most is not the moment I saw my work in New Yorker font, not when I saw the illustration of my father, not the congratulatory phone calls and notes that followed, but that predawn morning in my bedroom, at my desk, the lights of cars below on Broadway, my computer screen glowing in the dark. ~ Dani Shapiro
Yorker quotes by Dani Shapiro
Stewart, with the help of his incredibly astute staff, was combining reporting with commentary, pointing a finger at stupidity and hollowness, and devising a creative hand grenade. All of it had political purpose and direction. It wasn't strictly ideological, although he's obviously left of center. And he was fearless, not in the sense that anybody was going to make him a political prisoner. But he punched up. He punched up, and the shots landed.

I don't think the world is any more absurd now than it's ever been, or more tragic, or more beautiful. But Jon took advantage of these new ways of seeing the world and took out his magic marker and drew circles around the idiocy. He set out to be a working comedian, and he ended up an invaluable patriot. He wants his country to be better, more decent, and to think harder.

~ DAVID REMNICK, editor in chief, the New Yorker ~ Chris Smith
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I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea. ~ Marissa Jaret Winokur
Yorker quotes by Marissa Jaret Winokur
My confidence that there is a loving God who cares at all for your health or your longevity, based on what I see in the physical universe, is so low that it's not something that I would spend any time investing in, to try to explore any further about whether or not it's true. I'll let other people do that exploring."

Read in the New Yorker, sometime in March, 2015 ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Yorker quotes by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it! ~ Max Von Essen
Yorker quotes by Max Von Essen
Most of the streets in Manhattan go in just one direction. Some of the larger crosstown streets and some of the major north - south avenues have two-way traffic, but in general, the odd-numbered streets go west, toward the Hudson River, and the "evens go east," as Jane, the native New Yorker, taught me. ~ Lauren Graham
Yorker quotes by Lauren Graham
Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade. ~ Stephanie Clifford
Yorker quotes by Stephanie Clifford
A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. ~ J.D. Salinger
Yorker quotes by J.D. Salinger
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. ~ Laurie Anderson
Yorker quotes by Laurie Anderson
Elizabeth ran her finger along the windowsill, gathering dust. The view was almost exactly the same as from her own bedroom, only a few degrees shifted. She could still see the Rosens' place, with its red door and folding shutters, and the Martinez house, with its porch swing and the dog bowl. She'd heard once that what made you a real New Yorker was when you could remember back three laters -- the place on the corner that had been a bakery and then a barbershop before it was a cell-phone store, or the restaurant that had been Italian, then Mexican, then Cuban. The city was a palimpsest, a Mod Podged pileup or old signage and other people's failures. Newcomers saw only what was in front of them, but people who had been there long enough were always looking at two or three other places simultaneously. The IRT, Canal Jeans, the Limelight. So much of the city she'd fallen in love with was gone, but then again, that's how it worked. It was your job to remember. At least the bridges were still there. Some things were too heavy to take down. ~ Emma Straub
Yorker quotes by Emma Straub
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. ~ Mohsin Hamid
Yorker quotes by Mohsin Hamid
Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way. ~ James Purdy
Yorker quotes by James Purdy
Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. ~ Bob Dylan
Yorker quotes by Bob Dylan
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' ~ George Saunders
Yorker quotes by George Saunders
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. ~ Alan Dershowitz
Yorker quotes by Alan Dershowitz
I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday. ~ Candace Bushnell
Yorker quotes by Candace Bushnell
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. ~ Daniel Libeskind
Yorker quotes by Daniel Libeskind
A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner's credo: keep it to yourself. ~ James Hynes
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