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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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• It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

  Erica Jong

  Mirrors, Air, Venice

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• We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Neglect, Peril, City Life

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.78, Best Books on

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Florida

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• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

  John Gunther

  Forever, Chicago, Teeth

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• 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.

  Jane Jacobs

  Support, Vandalism, Rebuilding

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• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  Tacitus

  Rome, Shameless, Flocks

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• Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

  Plato

  Men, Tree, Fields

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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.

  Italo Calvino

  Shapes, Ends, Form

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• The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Paris, France

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Swans, Sky, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Country, People, Infidelity

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• To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Nature, Prayer

  "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent" l. 1 (1817)

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Travel, Home

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Dine In, Philadelphia

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Swamps, Towns

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

  Lord Byron

  Climbing, Feelings, Mountain

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

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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.

  Edward Hoagland

  Summer, Age, Want

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Letter to Groucho Marx, 12 June 1953

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• Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Garden, Ends

  Alexander Maclaren (1902). “The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons”

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• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Love, Song, Heart

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

  Roland Barthes

  New York, Real, Men

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Powerful, Reading

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• 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.

  C. Wright Mills

  Rome, Paris, America

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• Cities are the abyss of the human species.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Abyss, Humans, Species

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.59, Basic Books

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