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“When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.”
“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this...”
“The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a few of us were investigating around the summer of 1953, is not too inappropriate. It does not contr...”
“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. ...”
“And except on a certain kind of winter eveningsix-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in t...”
“We no longer produce laborers, we would rather pray to God to send laborers to come and build our cities”
“Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.”
“In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.”
“I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love.”
“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 of...”
“She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again.”
“For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbits foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbits foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws ...”
“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.”
“... civilizationa word that simply means "living in cities..."Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. A History of the World In 6 Glasses.”
“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 know ...”
“She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers the secret silence of London then, the amazing hush of it, slush crunching beneath her feet and ...”
“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 ...”
“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 stil...”
“I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.”
