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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. (Piven Jeremy)
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. (Piven Jeremy)
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. (Piven Jeremy)
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. (Piven Jeremy)
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. (Piven Jeremy)
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. (Piven Jeremy)
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. (Piven Jeremy)
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. (Piven Jeremy)
All things may be bought in Rome with money. (Piven Jeremy)
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost. (Piven Jeremy)
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. (Piven Jeremy)
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. (Piven Jeremy)
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. (Piven Jeremy)
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. (Piven Jeremy)
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. (Piven Jeremy)
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. (Piven Jeremy)
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. (Piven Jeremy)
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. (Piven Jeremy)
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. (Piven Jeremy)
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph. (Piven Jeremy)
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. (Piven Jeremy)
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