Here is New York (1949)

He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century

For a whole generation, New York has become steadily more frustrating and tedious to move around in, more expensive to do business in, more unsatisfactory to raise children in, and more difficult to escape from for a holiday in the country.

It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference.

The Trouble I’ve Seen,