Culture Quote by Gordon Lish

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

— Epictetus

“ It's strangely liberating. It's liberating, energising, and thrilling to step outside all of the rules of decorum and exist in a place I've…

— Wendy Wunder

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it’s still aesthetically traumatic,…

— Kamila Shamsie

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real…

— Toni Morrison

“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”

— Louis L'Amour

“I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.”

— Toni Morrison

“Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.”

— Deepak Chopra

“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

“All my life, I've been trying to adhere to the surface of your city...”

— Bhanu Kapil

“What I found in a city—when I finally saw a real one—was disquieting. Nothing matched. It was a weird assemblage of things, but there…

— Marcel Theroux