my memoir
But of course I stayed a few days longer and met my sister so we could enjoy the New York scene and visit some of our favorite places. We saw two plays--Ann and My Name is Asher Lev, both wonderful, went to the Guggenheim and the Museum of Natural History and ate at our favorite restaurant, Lattanza. We ifnished off with an art gallery tour of Chelsea--amazzng art from weird to awe-inspiring.
Guggenheim Museum
So here are some of my favorite quotes about NYC:
The city seen
from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its
first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Give me such
shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! Walt Whitman
I remember
walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the
second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but
I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating
it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could
taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs
and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it
would cost something sooner or later — because I did not belong there, did not
come from there — but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that
later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it
costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar
to New York, that something extraordinary would happen
any minute, any day, any month. Joan Didion
Anytime four
New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just
taken place. Johnny Carson
I go to Paris,
I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, “There’s no place like New
York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is.
That’s it.” Robert De Niro
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