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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.

— Peter Conrad

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

Down Home (1988)

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and prised open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.

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