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Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. — Don DeLillo
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an… — M. John Harrison
Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago… — Terry Pratchett
There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. — Gregory Maguire
I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode,… — Cherie Priest
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor… — C.S. Lewis
Don't let the wicked city get you down. — Sylvia Plath
When I went to stay with Iâ€™m, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave him the Morgenstern… — Cassandra Clare
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goatâ€™s back and… — J M Coetzee
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if… — Elwyn Brooks White
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't… — Neal Shusterman
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready… — Mitch Albom
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who… — Dennis Lehane
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city… — Walt Whitman
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even… — Douglas Adams
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off.… — Richard Paul Evans
Thereâ€™s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when youâ€™re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond,… — Kate Morton
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii… — Jim Butcher
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters… — Tom Robbins

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