Culture Quote by Amor Towles

“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a…

— Amor Towles

“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in…

— Amor Towles

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions,…

— Elena Ferrante

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”

— Sophocles

“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he…

— Monica Sjöö

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag

“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo