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[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.
Anna Quindlen
You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.
Marina Tavares Dias
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Nelson Algren
People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.
Ian McNulty
The city's full of people who you just see around.
Terry Pratchett
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Thomas Wolfe
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
David Letterman
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.
Coriolanus III
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
E. M. Forster
From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, the whole lot of them. I hadn't the nerve to tell them so in the daytime, to their face, but up there it was safe. Help! Help! I shouted, just to see if it would have any effect on them. None whatsoever. Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time.
LouisFerdinand Celine, Journey t
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
Lewis Mumford
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
Peter Conrad
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith
What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. Henry
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
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