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Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population...

—Cole Swensen

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A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as the streets of successful city neighborhoods always do, must have three main qualities:First,...

—Jane Jacobs

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Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way – as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago – they find a way to just carry on. But you’re stressed out. You’re...

—Mohsin Hamid

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I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds...

—Tracey Emin

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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for...

—Elmore Leonard

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C’est un plaisir que de supputer, subodorer, côtoyer le mystère qui se tramait dans les quartiers, villages et ruelles de Montréal, et de se demander comment tout ça allait finir. J’avais confiance. J’avais confiance en...

—Monique LaRue

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The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

—Victor Hugo

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Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

—Charles Baudelaire

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He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winter nights when home lights brownly wave beneath...

—Jack Kerouac

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You can’t love a city if you have no memories burried there.

—Marina Tavares

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Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from...

—Rebecca Solnit

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Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.

—Edward Glaeser

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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

—Jane Jacobs

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On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

—Nia Vardalos

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The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least,...

—Terry Pratchett

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The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist.

—Honoré Willsie

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…Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off...

—Jerry Herron

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Before them is the most beautiful city she has ever seen, has ever imagined. Golden rooftops shine brightly; windows made from diamonds and rubies gleam; tall buildings reach toward the clouds. She is again overwhelmed,...

—Victoria Kahler

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We are all proprietary toward cities we love. ‘Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!’ we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should...

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to...

—Jay Woodman

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Toward the end of the Second World War, anew consciousness arose amongst the publicand policy makers of the Western World. Afterten years of crippling economic depressionand another five at war, the public demandedsomething new from...

—Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

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Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller’s, only to know that one might. A city always...

—Rebecca Solnit

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It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and...

—Charlotte Eriksson

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When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

—Jane Jacobs

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I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

—Noël Coward

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Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way north on both...

—Steven Millhauser

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Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

—Chief Seattle

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If you don’t keep your country clean, nobody can do that for you.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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I haven’t travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I’ve never even been to US.

—Ville Valo

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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

—Clay Shirky

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Kissimmee has the best name, other than Hugsburg and Fornicatesville.

—Jarod Kintz

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All around us, Karachi kept moving

—Kamila Shamsie

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In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes...

—Rebecca Solnit

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There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself...

—Iain M.

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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, ‘neighborhood’ is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or...

—Jane Jacobs

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Perhaps the Ci-ty dreamed of an-other, en-emy city, float-ing across the sea to invade the es-tuary . . . or of waves of darkness . . . waves of fire . . . Perhaps of...

—Thomas Pynchon

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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

—Zaha Hadid

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Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.

—Bill Bryson

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We speak now or I do, and others do. You’ve never spoken before. You will. You’ll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal...

—China Miéville

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Like most cities, London could be a lonely place…

—Kassandra Cross

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It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where...

—Umair Naeem

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Cities are 2% of the earth’s crust, but they are 50% of the world’s population.

—Carlo Ratti

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Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was...

—George Selden

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Toute transformation sociale (…) s’est fondée sur de nouvelles bases métaphysiques et idéologiques; ou plutôt, sur des émotions et intuitions plus profondes, dont l’expression rationalisée prend la forme du cosmos et de la nature de...

—Lewis Mumford

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Christianity revitalized life in Greco-Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems. To cities filled with the homeless and the impoverished, Christianity offered...

—Rodney Stark

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My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

—Charlotte Eriksson

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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything–certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

—Jane Jacobs

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A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

—Rasmenia Massoud

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It’s very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

—Zaha Hadid

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Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never be able to see the city of London without seeing it...

—Anna Quindlen

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