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"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave."
"Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one."
"It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened."
"I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside of myself is everything else."
"A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it."
"I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising."
"That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now."
"Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has."
"But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us."
"At least I carpe'd that one diem."
"Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will."
"Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves."
"Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves."
"Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!"
"I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic."
"My home is in whatever town I'm booked."
"It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you."
"There was funky Chinamen from funky China town."
"In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves."
"I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?"."
