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I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be  (Yorker Quotes) What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises  (Yorker Quotes) I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing  (Yorker Quotes) I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker  (Yorker Quotes) I am a real New Yorker... I didn’t go to Harvard, I didn’t go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn’t root for the Boston Red Sox  (Yorker Quotes) I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west  (Yorker Quotes) I’m a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family  (Yorker Quotes) If someone lives in New York, he’s a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world  (Yorker Quotes) As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America  (Yorker Quotes) I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren’t neutral  (Yorker Quotes) The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department  (Yorker Quotes) I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering  (Yorker Quotes) You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself  (Yorker Quotes) Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don’t appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn’t appear until 2000  (Yorker Quotes) A friend said to me I’m like a walking New Yorker article. It’s true! That’s how I write. That’s how I think  (Yorker Quotes) I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing  (Yorker Quotes) Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people  (Yorker Quotes) As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s  (Yorker Quotes) I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there  (Yorker Quotes) The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It’s a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror  (Yorker Quotes) The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding  (Yorker Quotes) I’ve always believed that thoughtful people don’t really take the tabloids seriously. They’re basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker  (Yorker Quotes)
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