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Quotes about cities and city life
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. (Cross David)
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. (Cross David)
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. (Cross David)
I found Rome brick, I left it marble. (Cross David)
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. (Cross David)
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. (Cross David)
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. (Cross David)
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. (Cross David)
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris] (Cross David)
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. (Cross David)
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. (Cross David)
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.] (Cross David)
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. (Cross David)
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. (Cross David)
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. (Cross David)
The city is recruited from the country. (Cross David)
The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch. (Cross David)
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. (Cross David)
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