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Top 20 Sari Botton Quotes (2025 Update)

Sari Botton Quote: “I was terrified by the prospect of mediocrity in myself or my surroundings, and whatever happened, whatever I did, if it happened in New York, my thinking went, it would not be mediocre.”

1. “I was terrified by the prospect of mediocrity in myself or my surroundings, and whatever happened, whatever I did, if it happened in New York, my thinking went, it would not be mediocre.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.”

2. “Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “Leaving home does something to your sense of identity. Either you become more of that place than you ever were while you lived there, or your identity calcifies around the rejection of this place. It is challenging to inhabit the space between these two positions.”

3. “Leaving home does something to your sense of identity. Either you become more of that place than you ever were while you lived there, or your identity calcifies around the rejection of this place. It is challenging to inhabit the space between these two positions.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “New York City gave me everything it had, and greedy as I was for experience, I took and took. I carry with me every day the gift of the lessons New York taught me.”

4. “New York City gave me everything it had, and greedy as I was for experience, I took and took. I carry with me every day the gift of the lessons New York taught me.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “Leaving things you love is easier when you’re younger. You make stupid decisions about the wrong people. You slam the apartment door, throw your lover’s clothes out the window onto the sidewalk. Leaving gets harder as you age. You don’t leave out of anger or from coming to your senses, but because your love is not as strong as your reasons for going.”

5. “Leaving things you love is easier when you’re younger. You make stupid decisions about the wrong people. You slam the apartment door, throw your lover’s clothes out the window onto the sidewalk. Leaving gets harder as you age. You don’t leave out of anger or from coming to your senses, but because your love is not as strong as your reasons for going.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “And I discovered this was the best thing about New York: you could run away every day if you wanted to and still find yourself in a newly incarnated version of the city.”

6. “And I discovered this was the best thing about New York: you could run away every day if you wanted to and still find yourself in a newly incarnated version of the city.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor.” That was Cookie Mueller on the East Village, 1985. The.”

7. “Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor.” That was Cookie Mueller on the East Village, 1985. The.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “It’s just you miss the reckless girl who lived here. Petulant funny stubborn blind unforgiving little wench, beholden to no one, blindly enacting her will on everything, everyone. She was nobody’s mother. It was your youth! Now you’re older and wiser and better in about a thousand ways.”

8. “It’s just you miss the reckless girl who lived here. Petulant funny stubborn blind unforgiving little wench, beholden to no one, blindly enacting her will on everything, everyone. She was nobody’s mother. It was your youth! Now you’re older and wiser and better in about a thousand ways.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “I have not been completely happy anywhere. At least not yet.”

9. “I have not been completely happy anywhere. At least not yet.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “I had never imagined living anywhere but New York City until, one day, I did imagine it, and almost immediately I left the only home I’d known. It was time to leave the noise and the bodies behind. Time for the kind of quiet that only happens deep in the woods, lost, craning my neck up to the sky to find my way.”

10. “I had never imagined living anywhere but New York City until, one day, I did imagine it, and almost immediately I left the only home I’d known. It was time to leave the noise and the bodies behind. Time for the kind of quiet that only happens deep in the woods, lost, craning my neck up to the sky to find my way.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “Wherever I am is the beginning of an adventure.”

11. “Wherever I am is the beginning of an adventure.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “But honestly, for the last two years that I lived in New York, I went to very few movies. I had a baby. I was laid off. I could not afford child care to go to the movies. Irrationally, I did not want child care. I wanted to take care of my daughter. I was in love with her, Nina, a burning crazy passionate love. My life in New York City pretty much fell apart after she was born.”

12. “But honestly, for the last two years that I lived in New York, I went to very few movies. I had a baby. I was laid off. I could not afford child care to go to the movies. Irrationally, I did not want child care. I wanted to take care of my daughter. I was in love with her, Nina, a burning crazy passionate love. My life in New York City pretty much fell apart after she was born.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “People often mistake New Yorkers for rude and mean, but they’re really just no-nonsense and efficient. They don’t have time, regularly, to be warm and friendly with everyone who crosses their path. Nothing would ever get done. But when the chips are down, when it matters, they drop their cool exteriors and become unabashedly human.”

13. “People often mistake New Yorkers for rude and mean, but they’re really just no-nonsense and efficient. They don’t have time, regularly, to be warm and friendly with everyone who crosses their path. Nothing would ever get done. But when the chips are down, when it matters, they drop their cool exteriors and become unabashedly human.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “When you tell people you’re going to leave New York, they like to tell you, “New York will always be here.” But it won’t always be there. My insides ache when I think, “I will never be twenty again and moving to Williamsburg with the sun on my face.” So I don’t let myself think it.”

14. “When you tell people you’re going to leave New York, they like to tell you, “New York will always be here.” But it won’t always be there. My insides ache when I think, “I will never be twenty again and moving to Williamsburg with the sun on my face.” So I don’t let myself think it.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “And then there are the subway readers of difficult books. I like to imagine that New Yorkers are more literate than the riders of other American metropolises.”

15. “And then there are the subway readers of difficult books. I like to imagine that New Yorkers are more literate than the riders of other American metropolises.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “New York is the place I am from, even though I was never from there to begin with.”

16. “New York is the place I am from, even though I was never from there to begin with.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “I had imagined my dreams coming true, but not what happened after that.”

17. “I had imagined my dreams coming true, but not what happened after that.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “I left New York because I wanted more. I wanted space and silence, mountains and sky – the calm to appreciate my life, a life that, I now knew, had already begun and didn’t need to “get started.”

18. “I left New York because I wanted more. I wanted space and silence, mountains and sky – the calm to appreciate my life, a life that, I now knew, had already begun and didn’t need to “get started.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “The subways, to my eyes, are a godsend: efficient, they get me where I want to go pretty quickly, they provide entertainment, sometimes via musicians who perform at station platforms, sometimes through the singing panhandlers who traipse through the cars, and most important, they are a stay against solipsism, proof positive that I am not alone in the universe.”

19. “The subways, to my eyes, are a godsend: efficient, they get me where I want to go pretty quickly, they provide entertainment, sometimes via musicians who perform at station platforms, sometimes through the singing panhandlers who traipse through the cars, and most important, they are a stay against solipsism, proof positive that I am not alone in the universe.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “I know one of the secrets the rest of the country hasn’t figured out yet: it’s not New Yorkers who are rude, it’s the tourists who’ve seen a movie about rude New Yorkers and think they have to act the same way when they come to New York who are rude.”

20. “I know one of the secrets the rest of the country hasn’t figured out yet: it’s not New Yorkers who are rude, it’s the tourists who’ve seen a movie about rude New Yorkers and think they have to act the same way when they come to New York who are rude.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “The city was haunted in a way I hated and cherished at the same time.”

21. “The city was haunted in a way I hated and cherished at the same time.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.”

22. “They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “People who don’t love the city talk about the freedom of the country and its wide open spaces; they marvel at how one could live in so cramped and crowded a space. But I always felt free in Brooklyn. I found safety in its enclosures. The city let me relax into being myself. Being who I am in New York didn’t feel like an action I took – it just felt like living.”

23. “People who don’t love the city talk about the freedom of the country and its wide open spaces; they marvel at how one could live in so cramped and crowded a space. But I always felt free in Brooklyn. I found safety in its enclosures. The city let me relax into being myself. Being who I am in New York didn’t feel like an action I took – it just felt like living.”

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Sari Botton Quote: “Sure, I might leave the city someday, the same way I might become an astronaut or a lion tamer.”

24. “Sure, I might leave the city someday, the same way I might become an astronaut or a lion tamer.”

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