Art Quote by Deborah Garner

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

“Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!… Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling…

— Thomas Hardy

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew…

— Jacqueline Carey

“We want to make choices, and have some agency in getting lost, and getting found. We want to challenge the city, and decipher it,…

— Lauren Elkin

“Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer