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“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 city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…

— Geoffrey West

“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

“whether or not we could have our cake and eat it too was merely a test of our creativity and character.”

— Ray Dalio

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”

— Dione Lucas

“In the inner city, much was made of early milestones. Later ones might never come. —”

— Matthew Desmond

“Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!… Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling…

— Thomas Hardy

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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 cultures teem with creativity, on display both via inconceivable monuments and in the flawless blend of two spices. I want to see the…

— Tsh Oxenreider