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title: "1 Loved City Quotes By Sheridan Hay"
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> [“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-loved-the-city-we-were-anonymous-and-even-then-i-had-the-sense-that/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

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## More by Sheridan Hay

> [I drink to not giving a damn . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-drink-to-not-giving-a-damn/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a bartender's dishrag. He gave the lie to bookselling as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/bruno-was-a-musician-with-the-temperament-of-an-anarchist-and-the/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/he-wanted-to-limit-me-to-his-own-investigation-of-who-i-was/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/ageing-is-a-process-of-exchanging-hope-for-insight/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/nothing-is-ever-what-you-imagine-is-it/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Unlikely things are often true . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/unlikely-things-are-often-true/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-loved-the-city-we-were-anonymous-and-even-then-i-had-the-sense-that/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/liberation-was-in-the-very-scale-of-the-city-a-goldfish-bowl-one/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/drunk-on-research-exhilarated-by-arcane-details/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/they-were-oddities-marginal-and-not-exactly-respectable-for-her-part/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-didn-t-know-then-that-this-was-how-deep-emotion-most-often-comes/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Art opens the fishiest eye . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/art-opens-the-fishiest-eye/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“..the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/the-ceiling-is-just-a-deep-dusty-dome-like-the-inside-of-a-skull-both/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/books-aren-t-lumps-of-paper-but-minds-on-shelves/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/the-arcade-and-now-peabody-s-combined-to-tell-me-that-there-was-life/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

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