Quotes about Brooklyn

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…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurd — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity. — Gene Dunn
Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city. — Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
Florence, listen to me carefully.... Take whatever that agent offers you. Give him what he wants, and don’t ask too many — Sana Krasikov, The Patriots
Who is she, after all? Not a member of the Party. Not even a Russian...What can she do, really, but watch the ginger-hai — Sana Krasikov, The Patriots
The immediate difficulty, Florence realised while riding the high rail back to Brooklyn, was how to break the news to he — Sana Krasikov
Well, I didn't really know what to say. So maybe I should say that I have thought about you and I like you, I like seein — Colm Tóibín
Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the bl — Henry Miller, Black Spring
Here's what I think...There is no unfucked up. People think there is, but there's not. We're all fucked up in different — Gemma Burgess, Brooklyn Girls
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed — Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
When the Brooklyn rain comes downhopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up — Julian Gallo, My Arrival is Marked by Illuminating Stains
I was beginning to feel that there would never be another American uprising, that the energy was gone, and I have some r — Hakim Bey
Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterday, Brooklyn had belonge — Sarina Bowen, Rookie Move
My mother's mother came to this country in the usual way--she got on a boat with other immigrants and sailed from Sicily — Andrew Cotto, Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
Stop, stop pretty water!"Said Mary one dayTo a frolicsome brookThat was running away."You run on so fast!I wish you woul — Eliza Lee Follen
We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city. — Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens. — Dallas Athent
They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less menta — Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatb — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye