“I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America­, New York City... It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn’t. So it was the melting pot that was a purée rather than individual vegetables. I think of New York as a purée and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.”
-- Spaulding Gray


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