"I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London."
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"A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many."
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"The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?"
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"[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses."
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"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."
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"In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money."
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"It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent."
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"Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
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"London is a modern Babylon."
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"London is a roost for every bird."
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"London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration."
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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
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"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."
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"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage."
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"London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared."
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"I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me."
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"You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once."
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"A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope."
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"I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD."
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"If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash."
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