David Perell
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David Perell
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
— John Updike
Neighborhoods of New York
Jack Reins, New York socialization
Jay-Z, Empire State of Mind
Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
Lined with casualties, who sip the life casually
Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
Into the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
City of sin, it's a pity on
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
— John Steinbeck
The early New York culture (from the book, “Greater Gotham)
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald