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“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared…

— Barbara Hambly

“In the main street of Winesburg crowds filled the stores and sidewalks. Night came on, horses whinnied, the clerks in stores ran madly about,…

— Sherwood Anderson

“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and…

— John Lanchester

“Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to…

— Charles Dickens

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies,…

— Gary Inbinder

“Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple.…

— Dorothy Deming

“All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people”

— S.E. SEVER

“London town is a great and stinking warren. The smokes of many fires creep around our ankles and our cart, and a stench rises…

— Ned Hayes

“The way I viewed it, there were lots of very ugly things in London, so, on the occasions when something beautiful with a glossy…

— Tom Cox

I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate…

— Frances Wright

“In the space of a few generations a city with a population slightly less than that of present-day Stillwater, Oklahoma, produced the greatest outpouring…

— Daniel Coyle