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