“ As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”
- Desmond Morris- Copy
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“ The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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“ New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
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“ In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. ”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Copy
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“ If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. ”
- Herbert Victor Prochnow- Copy
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“ A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it — an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ”
- Peter Conrad- Copy
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“ Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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