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Book cover for The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
When President Reagan addressed the subject of homelessness in a TV interview in 1984, he volunteered his view that the people who were sleeping in the streets were doing so “by choice.”
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Maybe the most dangerous interview in American history.
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Colum McCann
“It (NY) was like the city that Lot left behind and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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J.K. Rowling
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Douglas Adams
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

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