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In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and… — Justin Cronin
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet… — Augusten Burroughs
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. — L. Frank Baum
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake… — Louise Penny
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start… — Kurt Vonnegut
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so… — Orhan Pamuk
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form… — Malcolm X
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and… — Voltaire
Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe… — Kelley Armstrong
I wasnâ€™t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didnâ€™t matter, we could live in any home, in any… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full… — Suketu Mehta
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even… — David Sedaris
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city… — Terry Pratchett
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list.… — Sue Grafton
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and… — Unknown Author
As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna… — Suzanne Collins
they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August — Janet Evanovich
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,… — Ayn Rand
It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone. — Kristin Cashore

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