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“Stuyvesants and Vanderbilts and Roosevelts and staid, respectable Washington Square. Trinity Church. Mrs. Astor’s famous ballroom, the Four Hundred, snobby Ward McAllister, that traitor Edith Wharton, Delmonico’s. Zany Zelda and Scott in the Plaza fountain, the Algonquin Round Table, Dottie Parker and her razor tongue and pen, the Follies. Cholly Knickerbocker, 21, Lucky Strike dances at the Stork, El Morocco. The incomparable Hildegarde playing the Persian Room at the Plaza, Cary Grant kneeling at her feet in awe. Fifth Avenue: Henri Bendel, Bergdorf’s, Tiffany’s.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue

“There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for at least one dance or a blow job in Daddy’s car and there are all these girls, looking indifferent or bored, smoking clove cigarettes, all of them or at least most of them staring at one blond-haired boy standing in the back with sunglasses on. Julian”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“Porque poder decir: «es duro», «no es justo», «estoy harto», sin temer que el interlocutor se sienta culpable, poder decirlo con la seguridad –son palabras de Étienneâ€� de que el otro oiga lo que dices tal como lo dices, ni más ni menos, de que no proyecte nada sobre ello, es una alegría y un alivio inmensos.”
― Emmanuel Carrère, De vidas ajenas

“The New York of the plays, the movies, the books; the New York of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and Vogue. It was a beacon, a spire, a beacon on top of a spire. A light, always glowing from afar, visible even from the cornfields of Iowa, the foothills of the Dakotas, the deserts of California. The swamps of Louisiana. Beckoning, always beckoning. Summoning the discontented, seducing the dreamers. Those whose blood ran too hot, and too quickly, causing them to look about at their placid families, their staid neighbors, the graves of their slumbering ancestors and sayâ€� I’m different. I’m special. I’m more. They all came to New York.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue