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Metropolis Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to…
- Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them…
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- Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger
- Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks
- She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of… — Nancy Price
- I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. — Mark Twain
- The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with… — Rem Koolhaas
- New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a… — Roland Barthes
- Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,… — Hunter S. Thompson
- The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part… — Henry Mayhew
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I… — Mark Twain
- Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many… — Sam Kean
- I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where… — Oriana Fallaci
- New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther