Cities Quotes

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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,… — P.G. Wodehouse
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of… — Lord Byron
The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued… — Salman Rushdie
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night? — Jim Morrison
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.… — John Irving
He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place,… — Tracy Chevalier
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city… — Clive Barker
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… — Mark Helprin
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. — John Kennedy Toole
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become… — Greg Mortenson
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. — Anne Michaels
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the… — Rebecca Solnit
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and… — Rebecca Solnit
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city… — Robert Frost
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly… — Italo Calvino
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips? — Alan Moore
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know… — Thomas Wolfe
That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent… — Raymond Carver
The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded,… — Neil Gaiman
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city… — Kurt Vonnegut

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