{"quotes":[{"text":"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["new-york-city"],"id":39,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["journalism","new-york-city","new-york-times"],"id":442,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.[David Dinkins ex NYC Mayor].","author":"David Dinkins","tags":["new-york-city"],"id":633,"author_id":"David+Dinkins"},{"text":"Bernier turned in her chair, smiled, and shook their hands. Dana’s heart skipped a beat as she stood inches away from one of New York’s most glamorous and adored women.","author":"Lynn Steward","tags":["a-very-good-life","lynn-steward","new-york-city","rosamond-bernier"],"id":2510,"author_id":"Lynn+Steward"},{"text":"Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["alex","humor","new-york-city","short-story","suspense","true-love","zack-love"],"id":2910,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky.","author":"Iain M. Banks","tags":["diziet-sma","ethological-epicentre","new-york-city","snow-dark-sky"],"id":3478,"author_id":"Iain+M.+Banks"},{"text":"Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["beautiful","beautiful-writing","beauty","buildings","italian","italy","new-york","new-york-city","personification","rome","tuscany","woman"],"id":3674,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.","author":"Colum McCann","tags":["new-york-city"],"id":4463,"author_id":"Colum+McCann"},{"text":"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["new-york-city","new-york-travel","travel","travel-writing","traveling"],"id":4466,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humor","new-york-city","temptation"],"id":4511,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":494,"pages":50,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}