Colson Whitehead
Author
"You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now."
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New Yorkers
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John Oliver
Comedian
"There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?"
Eliot Spitzer
Politician
"To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize."
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"I still think of myself really as a New Yorker"
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"In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers."
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"I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home."
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