"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great."

Allen, Fred A. on Cities and City Life
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"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi."

Allen, Fred A. on Cities and City Life
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

Aristotle on Cities and City Life
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"I found Rome brick, I left it marble."

Augustus, Caesar on Cities and City Life
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"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."

Austen, Jane on Cities and City Life
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"One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound."

Austen, Jane on Cities and City Life
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"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."

Baudelaire, Charles on Cities and City Life
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"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."

Baudrillard, Jean on Cities and City Life
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"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."

Baudrillard, Jean on Cities and City Life
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"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest."

Benjamin, Walter on Cities and City Life
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"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman."

Berger, John on Cities and City Life
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"When in Rome, do as Rome does."

Bierce, Ambrose on Cities and City Life
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"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."

Brodsky, Joseph on Cities and City Life
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

Brooke, Rupert on Cities and City Life
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"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."

Calvino, Italo on Cities and City Life
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"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."

Camus, Albert on Cities and City Life
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"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved."

Carson, Johnny on Cities and City Life
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"Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]"

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Cities and City Life
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"A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse."

Ciardi, John on Cities and City Life
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"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."

Connolly, Cyril on Cities and City Life
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"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."

Conrad, Peter on Cities and City Life
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"What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city."

Coriolanus III on Cities and City Life
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"Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]"

Dane, Frank on Cities and City Life
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"If you're not in New York, you're camping out."

Dewey, Thomas E. on Cities and City Life
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"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."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Cities and City Life
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"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."

Douglas, Michael on Cities and City Life
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Cities and City Life
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"Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Cities and City Life
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"Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Cities and City Life
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"The city is recruited from the country."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Cities and City Life
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"The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch."

Fieldes, Christopher on Cities and City Life
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"I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday."

Fields, W. C. on Cities and City Life
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"Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves."

Forster, Edward M. on Cities and City Life
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"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on Cities and City Life
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"Paris is the caf? of Europe."

Galiani, Ferdinando on Cities and City Life
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"Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all."

Gurney, Robert on Cities and City Life
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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."

Hemingway, Ernest on Cities and City Life
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"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?"

Henry, O. on Cities and City Life
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"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."

Herold, Don on Cities and City Life
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"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."

Hoagland, Edward on Cities and City Life
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