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The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
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Come
Inevitably
Without
Superiority
Feel
Diversity
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York
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Foreignness
Voice
Yorkers
Sense
Reflects

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