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"I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors."
"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others."
"This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns"
"The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does."
"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town."
"Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start."
"It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria."
"You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too."
"I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier."
"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town."
"Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie."
"There's so few people in this town with a conscience."
"I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town."
"Gossiping is the plague of little towns."
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
"There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it."
"I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!"
"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."
"Quick, name some towns in New Jersey"
"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"
