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Here are the 20 philosophical quotes from famous New Yorkers, rewritten with the author at the end of each quote, maintaining the original wording and philosophical depth. The quotes are sourced from individuals born in, raised in, or strongly associated with New York City or State, as per the previous response, and align with the provided guidelines.
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “The beliefs I have to defend are so soft and complicated, actually, and, when vivisected, turn into bowls of undifferentiated mush. I am a pacifist, I am an anarchist, I am a planetary citizen, and so on.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” – Dorothy Parker
- “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “New York is an ugly city, a dirty city… But there is one thing about it—once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck
- “Give me such shows—give me the streets of Manhattan!” – Walt Whitman
- “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote
- “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron
- “By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.” – E.B. White
- “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” – Djuna Barnes
- “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe
- “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz
- “I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” – Dylan Thomas
- “In New York, you can be a new man.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.” – Woody Allen
- “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike
- “New York is for farsighted people, people who can focus to infinity.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – James Baldwin
- “You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” – Edward Rutherfurd
- “A concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York.” – Alicia Keys
These quotes preserve the philosophical essence tied to New York’s influence on identity, freedom, and existence,