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We’ll start to forget a place once we left it

—Charles Dickens

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Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

—Hugh Newell

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CityPressTelevision
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The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility: it didn’t necessarily help you grasp those possibilities. I still...

—Hanif Kureishi

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CitiesCityLondon
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Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls. You take delight not in a city’s seven or...

—Italo Calvino

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Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove’s anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days...

—Guillaume Apollinaire

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AnguishCityCrowd
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

—Kate Baldwin

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ArtsBuildingCity
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The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station...

—Michael Rapaport

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CityFatherYork
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There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

—Mohammed Saeed

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I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don’t believe in god have to believe is in other people and that New...

—Sarah Vowell

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AtheismCityNew-York-City
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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

—Zinedine Zidane

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CityCulture
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In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it’s an issue that concerns...

—Philippe Falardeau

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CitySpeak
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…the assessment of psychological drift, that is the way in which an undirected pedestrian tends to move about in a particular quarter of the town, tending to establish natural connections between places, the zones of...

—Tom McDonough

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CityPedestrianSituationist
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We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

—Alexei Navalny

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CityHeartMoscow
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The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

—Alan Autry

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In photographs taken from the sky, cities resembled circuit boards. It was no surprise, really, that there were sparky misfirings, dangerous connections. Even traffic, Alice concluded, set up a kind of static in the air,...

—Gail Jones

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CityMovementPurpose
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One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that...

—Daniel Amory

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Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas...

—James Baldwin

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CityHistoryNew-York-City
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It is my trade,” he said. “I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black...

—Janet Frame

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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

—Leon Krier

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ArchitectureCityDevelopment
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

—Orhan Pamuk

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CertainCityState
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For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Monfleury est en vente, je perds cinquante mille francs, s’il le faut, mais je suis tout joyeux, je quitte cet enfer d’hypocrisie et de tracasseries. Je vais chercher la solitude et la paix champêtre au...

—Stendhal

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CityCountryside
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I love driving in the city at night.

—Waris Ahluwalia

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CityNight
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Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stationsWe crossed cities that turn-tabled all dayAnd vomited at night the sunshine of the day (“The Voyager”)

—Pierre Albert-Birot

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In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

—Anna Godbersen

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Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

—Bill Rancic

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CityHereNice
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In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem – sometimes they can be a solution, if...

—Eduardo Paes

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CityProblemPublic
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There seems to be a different Chicago around every street corner, behind every bar, and within every apartment, two-flat, cottage, or bungalow. City of immigrants or city of heartless plutocrats, say what you will, Chicago...

—Dominic A.

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ChicagoCity
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Isn’t that better?

—Daniel Amory

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This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

—Donald Barthelme

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CityMuck
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I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I’ve been humiliated in.

—Moon Unit

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BuildingsCityDrive
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If you’re open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

—Laurell K.

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CityHelpOpen
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…all this convinced him that he had come to one of those revolting havens where pathetic depravity makes its abode, born of tawdry education and the terrible populousness of the capital. One of those havens...

—Nikolai Gogol

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CityWhorehouse
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The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of...

—Michel de

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CityWalking
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I couldn’t be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

—Ryan Hall

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CityReturnYork
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Look at London or Paris: they’re both filthy. You don’t get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

—Tadao Ando

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BothCityProud
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Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on...

—Tom McDonough

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AlienationCapitalismCity
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When I was a teenager, if you’d asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

—Aleksa Palladino

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CitySaid
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

—Aristotle

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CityConfounded
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Na Natureza nunca eu descobriria um contorno feio ou repetido! Nunca duas folhas de hera, que, na verdura ou recorte, se assemelhassem! Na Cidade, pelo contrário, cada casa repete servilmente a outra casa; todas as...

—Eça de

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CityCivilizationNature
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I’ve definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

—Gillian Jacobs

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CityRunYork
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Bağışla beni efendimiz: er geç o rıhtıma çıkacağım kuşkusuz,” der Marco, “ama dönüp sana anlatamayacağım onu. Böyle bir kent var, ve de basit bir sırrı var: yalnız gidişleri bilir, dönüşleri bilmez.

—Italo Calvino

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CityDeath
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It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.

—Gena Showalter

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BoysCityFoodie
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It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.

—Kate Christensen

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BrooklynCityKate-Christensen
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I’m preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that’s coming up in New York City.

—Jessica Hagedorn

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CityComing
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We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

—Mohammed Saeed

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CityInsideRear
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If I look at it, it’s about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

—Keren Ann

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CityLostPersonal
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and...

—Teju Cole

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CityNew-York-CityUrban
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Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.

—Sara Sheridan

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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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CitiesCityCrying
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