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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown…

— Hari Kunzru

“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it. In…

— Jane Jacobs

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns…

— Genevieve Gorder

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

— Anonymous

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

— Juno Temple

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

— Nick Kroll

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town?…

— Debra Granik

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture.…

— Phyllis McGinley

In London everyone lives in small spaces so I found living in flatshares easy. I've never been bothered about privacy. If I'm home alone…

— A. J. Odudu

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is…

— Joseph Epstein

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

— Zach Condon