W. H. Auden book Forewords and Afterwords
"The Justice of Dame Kind", p. 464
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
“… for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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