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Cities

They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive.

Keith Wheeler

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Kevin Starr

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise

Mark Helprin (1947-)

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Om London är målat i vattenfärg så är New York en oljemålning.

Peter Shaffer (1926-)

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure

Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest

V. S. Naipaul (1932-)

The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the season's continual dustings of snow, appear to be the work of confectioners.

Warren Hoge

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

William Shawn

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

Alistair Cooke (1908-2004)

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Anatole Broyard

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Ben Hecht (1893-1964)

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

New York leder nu världens största städer i antalet människor som inte borde göra en hastig rörelse.

David Letterman (1947-)

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller (1953-)

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

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