Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
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J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla."
Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds."
Mariel Hemingway
Actress, Author
"Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst."
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"He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman."
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"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"
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"I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you."
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"I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening."
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"As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway."
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"Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister."
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"All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression."
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"Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!"
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"I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes."
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"Manhattan is where America began."
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