Salt Houses
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It would become the girl’s most endearing and exasperating quality, how she could become enamored of things already gone.
“The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.”
― Here is New York
― Here is New York
“It has never been more difficult or expensive for them to hang on here but they would not be anywhere else, not for the world.”
― Here is New York
― Here is New York
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