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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"L.A. is my American city."
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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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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"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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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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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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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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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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"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
"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."
Want
"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
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
Cleanliness
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"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
"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."
Purpose
"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
Criticism
"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
Gold
"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
Being
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