“ I had always imagined that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. ”
- Philip Guedalla- Copy
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“ In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. ”
- Lisa Loeb- Copy
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“ Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological — resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis. ”
- Henry Ellis- Copy
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“ It was like taking it all full circle for me, because that's, you know, in Salford, which is, you know, a suburb of Manchester, is where I learned the magic of photography from my father. And so taking the show all the way to Manchester was full circle for me. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
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