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“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”
“Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.”
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other ...”
“Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the hous...”
“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells:body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.”
“It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody”
“I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.”
“I came to this city to escape.”
“City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.”
“Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at dawn. Pub brawls, rackety roadworks, mugged tourists, ...”
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.”
“Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesnt necessarily affect the transformation. She was ...”
“If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyones wallets.”
“This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great masses of people, unable to have direct contact with mor...”
“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”
“To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.”
“We'll start to forget a place once we left it”
“The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much. When he walked through the gutted wreck of old Saint Paul's, he trip...”
“The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the e...”
“A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light,the city is a garment stretched so thinher festive colors bleed into the night.”
