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“large estates sat on the rugged hillsides with spectacular”

— Barbara Freethy

Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.…

— Kim Harrison

I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“No one had any objection when I suggested another detour shortly before reaching town. We turned on to a lovely road that ran high…

— Hermann Hesse

“Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary…

— Donald Dale Jackson

“One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of…

— Julian Barnes

I liked to drive by the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there.

— Gary Ridgway

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty…

— Jami Attenberg

“Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed a shape…

— Andro Linklater

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

— Joan Didion

“THE BOTTOMS" succeeded to "Hell Row". Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There…

— D.H. Lawrence

“too. No barking dogs or meowing cats or distant traffic noise. Even the wind was still. Nestled between Washington Avenue and Memorial Drive on…

— Diane Capri