Suburbs Quotes

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Sides, Outcast

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

  Mason Cooley

  Cities

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

  Mason Cooley

  Proof, Signs Of Life

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• I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the political dimensions of these things. I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.

  Bill Henson

  Beautiful, Dream, Light

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• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  May, Reign, Conformity

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 122, 1954.

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• Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Boredom, People, Causes

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• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

  Ed Koch

  Ed Koch, Christy Heady (2007). “Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, School, Mean

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.172, Anchor

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• If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

  Joshua Mohr

  Writing, Might, Comedy

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.

  Richard Yates

  Jobs, Home, Intelligent

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• It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

  Mike DeWine

  Epidemics, Ohio, Cities

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

  Stevie Smith

  Self, People, Liberty

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• All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Urbanization, Cities, Certain

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• You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, People, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

  Bill Ayers

  Ideas, Political, Privilege

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

  Megan Abbott

  Humorous, Thinking, Views

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• Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

  Orson Welles

  Stars, Gold, Hollywood

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• [Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Definitions, Way

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.30, Vintage

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• Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

  Mike Myers

  Growing Up, Father, Listening

  "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.

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• Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dog, Morning, Mean

  "J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85". Interview with Thomas Frick, www.theparisreview.org. 1984.

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• The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

  Hugh Hefner

  Girl, Baby, Moving

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• I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.

  Chris Parnell

  Thinking, Southern, Baptists

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 21, 2003.

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• The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

  Aaron Rose

  Believe, Ghetto, Dangerous

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Years, December

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