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Greenwich Quotes

O. Henry quote: "Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts."
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. O. Henry
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village. William Gaddis
She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ... Dan Simmons
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening. John Lennon
People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped. Kurt Vonnegut
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph Allen Ginsberg
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village caf. Augusten Burroughs
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all. Steve Forbert
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village. Roger McGuinn
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. Roger McGuinn
Gregory Corso quote: "Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich..."
Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man. Gregory Corso
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso quote: "My background did not start with the East Side; it started..."
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. Gregory Corso
Weegee quote: "This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing..."
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there. Weegee

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