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• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

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• Even cities have their graves!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Graves

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.946, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Desert

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

  O. Henry

  Men, Flames, Disappear

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1513, Delphi Classics

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• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Women, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Distance, Clouds

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• When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Europe, Large Cities

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Art, Nature

  "The Culture of Cities". Book by Lewis Mumford. Introduction, 1938.

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Struggle, Years

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.305, Penguin

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• There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Numbers, City Life

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• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Born, Metropolis

  1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.

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• A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

  Mark Helprin

  Law, Promise, Bulls

  "Always carry a bin bag" by Jemima Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spiritual, Civilization, World

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• When in Rome, do as Rome does.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rome, Doe, City Life

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• Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.

  Jan Morris

  Essence, Skills, Flow

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• We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

  John Lennon

  Crazy, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Business, Real, Goes On

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• This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

  Plato

  Funny, Citizens

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• I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Men, Safe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.311

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• You have been the last dream of my soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Soul, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.95

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Next Week, Voice

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Elaine Partnow "The New Quotable Woman: From Eve To the Present Day" (p. 331), 1993.

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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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

  William H. Whyte

  Urbanization, Space, People

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

  Jane Austen

  Pregnancy, Looks, Literature

  "The Complete Novels".

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