brightdawns:
“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”
brightdawns:
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of..."
brightdawns:
“The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.”
brightdawns:
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years”
brightdawns:
“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.”
brightdawns:
“Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up”
brightdawns:
“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain”
brightdawns:
"I am in love with the green earth"
brightdawns:
“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
brightdawns:
“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
brightdawns:
“A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat”
brightdawns:
East Village
brightdawns:
“When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine”
brightdawns:
"I really believe I was happier when I slept on a park bench in Central Park than during all the years of the 'perfect lover' stuff.''
brightdawns:
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."