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New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died.

Luc Sante

Not very long ago, the whole world smoked, no room was truly furnished unless it contained an ashtray, and all of waking life was measured out in cigarettes.

Luc Sante

I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.

Luc Sante

Utopias last five minutes, to the extent that they happen at all.

Luc Sante

Luc Sante

Luc Sante

Born: May 25, 1954 (age 71)

Bio: Luc Sante is a writer and critic. Sante has written a number of books and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Known for:

The Other Paris (2015)
Low Life (1991)
The Factory of Facts (1998)
Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces, 1990-2005 (2007)

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