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“But youre out of another world old kid You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.”
“[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of greyWhat Id seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hol...”
“I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed....”
“Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves t...”
“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blowsthis at least prod...”
“In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.”
“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty ...”
“The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the young and old.”
“My life wasnt just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.”
“Leave city, leave reality; enter forest, enter fantasy!”
“Seen from inside the bar, the avenue, the stores opposite, the street glimpsed going off at right angles, the trapezoid of sky visible above the lower buildings, are altered by the tinted windows i...”
“I visit you in my dreams and you talk to me in songs. Each sentence is a bridge taking me closer to the city that you are.”
“If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.”
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
“One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You...”
“In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.”
“I am happy I live in the city of light.”
“I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.”
“when we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed”
