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Taxi Driver Wisdom by Risa Mickenberg
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Taxi Driver Wisdom (edition 1996)

by Risa Mickenberg, Brian Lee Hughes (Herausgeber), Joanne Dugan (Fotograf)

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Hail a taxi cab, open the door to a burst of easy listening music, breathe in the poppy air freshener, lean over the seat, and say hello to the next Jean Paul Sartre or Kahlil Gibran. Taxi Driver Wisdom takes readers behind the Plexiglass curtain with pearls of wisdom from the most multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious group of philosophers ever assembled: New York Cab drivers. Atmospheric black and white photographs are paired with pithy quotes from downtown Descartes and freeway Foucaults-and bound with a faux leather cover just like the finest cab upholstery. Cheaper than an ashram and less of a hassle than Freudian analysis, Taxi Driver Wisdom is the shortest possible route to enlightenment. You may never want to take the bus again.… (more)
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Title:Taxi Driver Wisdom
Authors:Risa Mickenberg
Other authors:Brian Lee Hughes (Herausgeber), Joanne Dugan (Fotograf)
Info:Edition Stemmle (1996), Edition: o. J. N.-A., Gebundene Ausgabe, 176 pages
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A couple funny quotes. Mostly made my laugh because it brought my own memories of NYC cab drivers.

Wouldn't go out of my way to find it - but it's like a coffee table book, you'll flip through it in a few minutes. ( )
  jzacsh | Sep 9, 2020 |
This book is more than pictures. It has great little facts about living your life and it has some basic truths/observations that taxi drivers have seen/made on their drives through New York City. Of course these truths are everywhere and it is the taxi driver who is shedding light on the truths through some very basic ideas that anyone can understand. ( )
  igloowade | May 22, 2011 |
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I think Jean-Paul Sartre picked me up outside the Knicks game last week.
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Travel is to spread your life all over the world.
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Hail a taxi cab, open the door to a burst of easy listening music, breathe in the poppy air freshener, lean over the seat, and say hello to the next Jean Paul Sartre or Kahlil Gibran. Taxi Driver Wisdom takes readers behind the Plexiglass curtain with pearls of wisdom from the most multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious group of philosophers ever assembled: New York Cab drivers. Atmospheric black and white photographs are paired with pithy quotes from downtown Descartes and freeway Foucaults-and bound with a faux leather cover just like the finest cab upholstery. Cheaper than an ashram and less of a hassle than Freudian analysis, Taxi Driver Wisdom is the shortest possible route to enlightenment. You may never want to take the bus again.

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