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

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Princess, Unique

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• The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

  Rem Koolhaas

  New York, Sex, Squares

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• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

  Philip Guedalla

  Oxford, Paris, Streets

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• The suburbs dream of violence.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, America, World

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

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• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Names, House

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• Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Cities, Detroit

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• Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

  Melissa Bean

  Identity, Growing, Crime

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• While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.

  Sam Sifton

  Sports, Winter, Games

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• I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

  Nina Bawden

  Country, Mother, War

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Home, Names, Paradise

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

  John D. Barrow

  Density, Strings, Quarks

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• We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  New York, Moving, Security Guards

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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