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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. (Augustus )
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. (Augustus )
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. (Augustus )
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. (Augustus )
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. (Augustus )
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. (Augustus )
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. (Augustus )
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. (Augustus )
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. (Augustus )
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris] (Augustus )
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. (Augustus )
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. (Augustus )
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. (Augustus )
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. (Augustus )
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.] (Augustus )
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. (Augustus )
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. (Augustus )
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. (Augustus )
The city is recruited from the country. (Augustus )
The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch. (Augustus )
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. (Augustus )
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