"Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides."
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"Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith."
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"[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately."
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"Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!"
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"One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery."
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"Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped."
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"My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street."
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"The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength."
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"Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits."
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"From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure."
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"While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail."
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"New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it."
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"She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city."
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"Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide."
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"I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us."
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"A lot of guys I know loved Sex and the City. They’ll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it."
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"I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before."
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"I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before."
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"[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin."
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"The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself."
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