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NUMBER:3017
QUOTATION:New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.
ATTRIBUTION:Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930), Syrian poet. The Funeral of New York.
 
 
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