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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the… — Mohsin Hamid
Not to find oneâ€™s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose oneâ€™s way in a city, as one loses oneâ€™s way… — Walter Benjamin
I think I have become a very strong person. If youâ€™re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, youâ€™re able to… — Nneka
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. — Herman Melville
Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination. — Jane Jacobs
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the… — Aravind Adiga
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was… — Aravind Adiga
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. — Malcolm Gladwell
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners… — Victor Hugo
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You… — John Dos Passos
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. — Toyo Ito
Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different… — John Mulaney
Iâ€™m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. Iâ€™m not even supposed to be here. Thatâ€™s enough. Every night I walk into the… — LeBron James
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and… — Hilary Mantel
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA — Alexander Graham Bell
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and… — Rob Zombie
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone, — Colson Whitehead
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… — Colson Whitehead
In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and… — Jean Baudrillard
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. — Georg Simmel

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