Life Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

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

— Deborah Garner

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born…

— Helen Grant

“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

“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs…

— Albert Camus

“The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason.”

— Charles Dickens

“You wander through this city, and wonder if anything you do will make up for the horror that keeps the world turning. To live,…

— Max Gladstone

“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

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“I consider myself fortunate to have spent most of my life away from city living.”

— Steven Magee