"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town."
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"When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble."
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"Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen."
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"There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings."
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"People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold."
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"New Orleans in an amazing town."
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"A town in Upstate New York is being accused of being biased 'cause they sent out absentee ballots that say 'Barack Osama.' Today they apologized and printed new ballots that say 'Barack Hussein Osama.'"
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"I broke that town in half like a wooden match."
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"I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately."
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"I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I."
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"I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling."
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"Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense."
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"According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town."
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"I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen."
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"Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement."
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"There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town."
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"My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita."
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"There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration."
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"There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them"
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"Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town"
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