Best Small Town Wisdom
282 Small Town quotes by 249 unique authors
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Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem…
— Sarah Palin
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as…
— George Carlin
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Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens…
— Nick Hornby
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Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with…
— Raymond Chandler
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
— Kristin Hannah
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Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
— Richard Peck
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States…
— Stendhal
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A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were…
— Dennis Lehane
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And…
— Sherman Alexie
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Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
— Mitch Albom
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People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the…
— Dylan Thomas
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Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high…
— Anne Rice
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And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches…
— Jack Kerouac
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
— Louise Erdrich
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You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town
— Nicholas Sparks
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The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad,…
— Sarah Dessen
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I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean…
— Sheryl Crow
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Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it…
— Roger Bannister
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One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
— Anna Nicole Smith
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I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
— Leon Krier
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Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town…
— Dustin Milligan
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