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Urban life Quotes

"In what language does rain fall over tormented cities"

"Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist"

"A large city cannot be experientially understood; its life retains its mystery until we have lived in it for many generations."

"The dirt of towns is beautiful to me."

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

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

"Nothing is so curious as the mix of an apartment far up among the chimney-pots and the little world that hurries and jostles below."

"I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot"

"A town isn't a town without a bookstore"

"All I care about is money and the city that I'm from"

"Inspiration comes from the songs, the people, the streets, and everything"

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit"

"There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym"

"With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear."