"I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food."
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"I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out."
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"The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore."
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"The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one."
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"sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?"
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"...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die."
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"I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'"
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"You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again."
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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city."
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"I was born in a Negro town."
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"Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun."
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"St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town."
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"Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose."
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"... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other."
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"Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere."
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"A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other."
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"I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]"
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"When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him."
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"One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town"
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"Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect."
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