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“Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.”

— Lisa Samson

“Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream;…

— Stephen Leather

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

— Gertrude Stein

“I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each…

— Peggy Noonan

“This town is the Greek Baltimore.”

— David Sedaris

Baltimore is the community that emerges from the devoted and beautiful souls that come together to move her forward.

— Wes Moore

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

— Martin O'Malley

...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and…

— Laura Lippman

“As soon as I left one town, I was in another, each one a totally different world, as if an invisible box surrounded its…

— Carolee Dean

“The whole city was dangerous—because of chemicals and the uneven distribution of wealth and so on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg