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“Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I dont know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, ...”
“When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.”
“It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell--so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of known and rather ugly ob...”
“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and i...”
“The city's all brightnessand shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.”
“This poor little one-horse town.”
“If you would know and not be known live in a city.”
“God made the country and man made the town.”
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.”
“In the busy haunts of men.”
“Far from gay cities and the way of men.”
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.”
“The people are the city.”
“A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.”
“City life - millions of people being lonesome together.”
“We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.”
“The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.”
“A great city a great solitude.”
“In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to...”
“If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.”
