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City life Quotes

"The only cultural advantage LA has is that you can make a right turn on a red light."

"The dirt of towns is beautiful to me."

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless"

"The reward of living was to be in the thick of the street,"

"The great city is that which has the greatest men and women."

"How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home."

"Cities are the absence of physical space between people."

"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 quite a different schooling."

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

"The most wonderful city imaginable which has only one drawback, always too crowded. "

"It’s fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!"

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

"The great truth is this that even in Moscow the days sometimes turn out fair and the sunsets are sometimes astonishing."