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Rhoda

I decided to move out of the house when I was 24; my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home.

Rhoda Morgenstern Gerard: My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York in December, 1941. I’ve always felt responsible for World War II. The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. I had a bad puberty; it lasted 17 years. I’m a high school graduate. I went to art school. My entrance exam was on a book of matches. I decided to move out of the house when I was 24; my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home. Eventually I ran to Minneapolis, where it’s cold, and I figured I’d keep better. Now I’m back in Manhattan. New York, this is your last chance!

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Ed Koch

You don’t have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months.

You don’t have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you’re a New Yorker.

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Downton Abbey

I don’t think things are quite that desperate.

Cora: I could send her over to my aunt, she could get to know New York.
Dowager Countess: Oh, I don’t think things are quite that desperate.

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Woody Allen

Can we actually “know” the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

Can we actually “know” the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.