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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
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"L.A. is my American city."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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"Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude."
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"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
History
"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
Criticism
"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."
Want
"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
Mystery
"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
Being
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
City
"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."
Death
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
Cleanliness
"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
Criticism
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
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