"I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now."

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Source : The New Yorker, September 9, 2002.

Rachel Trachtenburg

#New York Quotes #Missing Quotes #Really Sad Quotes

“[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.”
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.”
“And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.”
“You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.”
“The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.”
“All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.”
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.”
“Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.”

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