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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak… — Italo Calvino
Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it! — Ilona Andrews
I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely… — J D Salinger
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the… — Terry Pratchett
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst… — Terry Pratchett
Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in… — Michael Buckley
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color… — Diane Ackerman
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and… — Haruki Murakami
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's… — Dave Eggers
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with… — Moira J. Moore
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. — Alastair Reynolds
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out:… — Yann Martel
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing… — John Maynard Keynes
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and… — Maya Angelou
Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the… — Austin Grossman
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? — Neil Gaiman
I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever… — David Thewlis
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my… — Ray Bradbury
I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would… — Francesca Lia Block
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the… — Francesca Lia Block
Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie… — Rick Riordan

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