I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“As he pushed the shopping cart down the narrow aisles [of Whole Foods]he noted two distinct types: the wild-haird bohemians who worked… — Dan Pope Copy Share Image
“... Women's impulse to change her own rhythms in the face of an environment constructed to retain her as guardian of the… — Nancy Rubin Stuart Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The best scenario for a genius to be born is a suburban area, not choc-a-bloc a place, for wits prefer quietness.” — Lana M. Rochel Copy Share Image
In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“I see that you’re about to leave, Rick. I just wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss the Thighmaster over there?… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The time of dangling insects arrived. White houses with caterpillars dangling from the eaves. White stones in driveways. You can walk at… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in all the bright assurances he was lost in a private darkness, led on by a recurrent dream of more than… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
“Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time.… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon That night… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
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