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Quotes

422by people from here

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

1888

★ 9.4

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

1987

★ 8.5

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 8.1

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 8.1

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Art

110held here

Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh

1889★ 9.6

The Girls of Avignon

1907★ 9.2

Campbell's Soup Cans

1962★ 8.8

The Persistence of Memory

1931★ 8.7

Melencolia I

1514★ 8.6

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)

Jackson Pollock

1950★ 8.6

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Movies

64set or made here

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

1972★ 10.0

Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese

1990★ 9.6

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

1976★ 9.6

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock

1954★ 9.3

The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan

2008★ 9.2

Annie Hall

1977★ 8.8

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Books

40set here

Invisible Man

1952★ 9.0

The Power Broker

1974★ 8.9

The Catcher in the Rye

1951★ 8.4

The Age of Innocence

1920★ 7.2

Bartleby the Scrivener (and other short stories)

Herman Melville

1853★ 7.1

The House of Mirth

1905★ 7.0

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Songs

40from the scene here

Fight the Power

1989★ 9.0

C.R.E.A.M.

1994★ 8.9

N.Y. State of Mind

1994★ 8.7

Juicy

The Notorious B.I.G.

1994★ 8.5

Shook Ones Part II

1995★ 8.1

99 ProblemsJay-Z

99 Problems

2004★ 8.0

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