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Cities Quotes by Colson Whitehead
- New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
- To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would…
- New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
- The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,
- What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know…
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- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman