3,292 Quotes About New-york


  • Author Fran Lebowitz
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    The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.

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  • Author Fran Lebowitz
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    If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

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  • Author Fran Lebowitz
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    New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

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  • Author Fran Lebowitz
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    In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

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  • Author Fran Lebowitz
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    In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

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