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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
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"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."
Death
"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."
Work
"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
Man
"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
Experience
"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
Change
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
Success
"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."
Home
"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
Business
"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
Man
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
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"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"L.A. is my American city."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
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"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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