new-york-city

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country.""Don't sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit.

Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

So I'm delighted to open up a bit about these particular details, in honor of Valentine's Day (when every balding, chubby, and short actuary wants people - especially the babes out there - to know about his studly past"From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story

If it__ true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)

I know when people think of New York, they think of theater, restaurants, cultural landmarks and shopping,_ I told him. __ut beyond the iconic skyline and the news from Wall Street, New York is a collection of villages. In our neighborhoods, we attend school, play Kick the Can, handball and ride our bikes. I grew up knowing the names and faces of the baker, the shoe repair family, the Knish man and the Good Humor man who sold me and the other kids in my neighborhood half a popsicle for a nickel. My father took me to the playground where he pushed me on the swing, helped balance me on the seesaw and watched as I hung upside down by my feet on the monkey bars. Yes,_ I told the interviewer, __eople actually grow up in New York.

Slowly the sky turned from the color of cornflower to that of hyacinth, and the Ferris wheel at Coney Island appeared like a ring of diamonds against the twilight. New York-that city made of canyons between tall buildings, and ornate houses filled with glittering things that might trap a girl forever-was nothing more than a few dots on an infinite landscape. The atmosphere was crystalline and afforded her a perfect view. Only from this place was she able to see how limited the city was, after everything, and how wide open the world could all of a sudden become.

If you want it badly enough, it__ yours.

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

As long as you__e breathing, it__ never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.