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Cities Quotes by Fred Allen
- I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
- Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
- Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
- The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
- You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of a fruit fly, and still have room left for three…
- I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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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