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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early...

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The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a goo...

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Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, ev...

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Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but ...

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

She could hear her hair growing. It sounded like something crumbling. A burnt thing crumbling. Coal....

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen ...

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to spea...

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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of d...

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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...

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I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The p...

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Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous ...

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I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than ju...

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I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

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Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev

My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a...

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There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets...

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Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The...

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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. Y...

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The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the soun...

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We'll start to forget a place once we left it

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Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in...

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused p...

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It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away f...

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I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Tows...

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Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your fri...

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The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk a...

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would ...

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I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate,...

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My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I...

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The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through ...

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City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. ...

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Diana Wynne JonesThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...

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Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements...

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Don DeLilloCosmopolis

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traff...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable ...

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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the set...

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Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb ou...

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Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you cou...

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live...

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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l...

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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...

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The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with ...

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furiou...

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Saying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more pie...

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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this...

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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you...

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The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practi...

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The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from a...

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Gene WolfeThe Sword of the Lictor

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to...

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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes...

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Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...

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You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

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The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant ...

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Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is...

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My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,...

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It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was...

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He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them...

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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...

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Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...

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To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet se...

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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of i...

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Far from gay cities and the way of men.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places e...

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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other su...

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Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities

In the streets of Cecilia, an illustrious city, I met once a goatherd, driving a tinkling flock alon...

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Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities

Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...

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the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis...

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this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into...

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Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above ...

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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. Ther...

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...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powe...

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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's wo...

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Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in...

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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had ne...

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In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those yo...

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No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities