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New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter system for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires.

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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

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Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad

Born: 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Peter Conrad is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature, currently teaching at Christ Church at the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Known for:
  1. Modern times, modern places (1998)
  2. A song of love and death (1987)

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