Town Quotes
1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors
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Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty…
— John Fante
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One day in the country Is worth a month in town
— Christina Rossetti
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Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until…
— Tom Robbins
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
— Freya Stark
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... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this…
— Carson McCullers
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I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the…
— Jodi Picoult
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Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with…
— Bill Bryson
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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its…
— Wendell Berry
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What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it…
— Neil Gaiman
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For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
— Unknown Author
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can…
— Ted Dekker
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How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,…
— Haruki Murakami
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The public library is the most dangerous place in town
— John Ciardi
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Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
— Harper Lee
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It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking…
— Susanna Clarke
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One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so…
— Shel Silverstein
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So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight…
— Gerard Way
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There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might…
— Haruki Murakami
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Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
— Jerry Garcia
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In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent
— David Lynch
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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 huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,…
— Ray Bradbury
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