Cities Quotes

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I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out â€“ my… — Keith Donohue
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or… — Neil Gaiman
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme… — John Waters
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking… — Rebecca Solnit
I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch… — Michelle Tea
The hard rain nailed the night to the city. — Dean Koontz
As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for… — Colm Toibin
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer… — Walt Whitman
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.… — Italo Calvino
If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of… — Jon McGregor
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river… — Arthur Koestler
New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the… — Betty Smith
Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty... — Terry Jones
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards… — Terry Pratchett
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to… — Sarah Vowell
She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the… — Terry Brooks
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley

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