Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
Betty SmithStichwörter: imagination growing-up dreams hope leaving brooklyn
Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the real thing as a picture of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, they sell Russian food on Brighton Beach, and Russian books and videos, and Russian clothes, and there are Russian restaurants and Russian nightclubs, and everybody speaks Russian, but the Russianness of the place is so concentrated that it feels ridiculously exaggerated. Everything Russian on Brighton Beach is too Russian, far more Russian than in real Russia. This is what happens all over Brooklyn. From the Scandinavians of Bay Ridge to the Chinese of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's immigrants go to ridiculous extremes to re-create their homelands only to end up with a vulgar pastiche.
Lara VapnyarStichwörter: memoirs brooklyn essays brooklyn-was-mine
Trust me," Cameron cut in, "there ain't a thing wrong with those two unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of their legs.
Brooklyn turned a tight-lipped smile on him. "Thanks so much for that penis-driven observation.
Stichwörter: brooklyn cameron death-and-girl-next-door
To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.
Dallas AthentStichwörter: new-york new-york-city brooklyn queens nyc
His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.
Raymond ChandlerStichwörter: humor new-york-city brooklyn
I hate this. Will the darkness ever fade?
Will I ever see light again?
Is it light where you are?
Stichwörter: brooklyn
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