I Hate NY: 10 Quotes
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10. "New York is hell. It is the place where all the negativisms of capitalism converge and blossom."
Doreatha D. Mbalia, Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness
9. "To me, New York is like a bitch of a woman, she's too much to handle, and I don't admire her lifestyle."
Danielle Steel, Going Home
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8.
"The skyscrapers seemed like tall gravestones. I wondered why, if the
United States was so rich, as surely it was, did its biggest city look
so grotesque? At that moment I sensed for the first time that people in
New York could not be as happy as we used to think they were back home."
Bernardo Vega, Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York
7.
"There are some who would say with passion that the only real advantage
of living in New York is that all its residents ascend to heaven
directly after their deaths, having served their full term in purgatory
right on Manhattan island."
Alexander Klein, Empire City: A Treasury of New York
6.
"New Yorkers are prone to boast of their superiority over the denizens
of other cities, but it is a fact that the American metropolis is
inferior in culture, intelligence and morals to almost any city in the
world. It is the home of big men with little soul, big newspapers with
little editors."
Henry O. Morris, Waiting for the Signal: A Novel
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5.
"What makes New York so dreadful, I believe, is mainly the fact that
the vast majority of its people have been forced to rid themselves of
one of the oldest and most powerful of human instincts -- the instinct
to make a permanent home."
H.L. Mencken, A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit
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4. "New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire”.
Henry James, Selected Letters of Henry James
3. "New York is a hellhole. And you know how I feel about hellholes!"
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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2. "New York is a sucked orange."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
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1.
"It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always
been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and
endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me."
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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