If You Can Make It Here, You Can Make It Anywhere
This is one of my favorite spots to capture the big apple from, a dreamy twenty miles away. This skyline shows the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge with the frozen Hudson River in the foreground. The words of Joan Didion sums up the city to a truthful tee. Thousands of creative types; actors, artists, dancers, musicians, writers, designers flock there every year to pursue their dreams of making it. Few do, but enough make it to sustain the magic.
My top ten favorite about New York quotes (which stand the test of time) include:
• New York is the only real city-city. Truman Capote
• Over the great bridge, with sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. 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
• New York is a sucked orange. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I carry the place around the world the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• It's a town you come to for a short time. Ernest Hemingway
•At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze. Frank Lloyd Wright
• Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other. John Updike
• It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York. John Steinbeck
• It'll be a great place if they ever finish it. O. Henry
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That is such a great picture. I can't believe that it is 20 miles away. What super quotes too. But I am glad I live here. LOL.
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It's looks closer with a zoom and thanks. I bet you don't miss snow.
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What a beautiful skyline in pastel pink and blue, colors that soften NYC's edge.
I love these quotes, Seinbeck, Fitzgerald, Capote, all of them.
And Baz Lurhman, Sunscreen Song (not his words but those of the journalist author of the poem)
'Leave New York before it makes you hard
Leave California before it makes you soft.'
Now to shovel 10 inches. Waiting for my Sorels. Buying Irish Whiskey. My coffee needs serious fortification.
Great article in NYT today about Yoga Teacher Tara Stiles.
Then MS.
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Love that quote. Ditto here. The snowblower is acting up so I'm helping with the neige.
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Loved this picture and quotes. I lived in NYC until I was 9, and then for 2 years after I got married. But no matter where I live, I always consider myself a New Yorker.
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Theresa, thanks, once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker.
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Beautiful photo, and beautiful quotes. I love New York.
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Ingrid, thanks. Enjoy your visit.
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Your pictures and quotes made me miss New York!
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Time to visit? But wait until warmer weather.
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Beautiful photo. Suggests a tranquility the city itself rarely affords. I grew up there, but never considered it home. It always seemed to me like a foreign country. But I can understand why so many people find it exciting.
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The tranquility is a mirage like an oasis in the desert. My hubby feels the same way you do.
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