"New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious."

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”

Ford Madox Ford

#New York Quotes #Crucible Quotes #Easy Quotes

“In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew.”
“For age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch”
“Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.”
“There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.”
“I'm more of a culture hummingbird.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo”
“It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.”
“Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”

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