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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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"L.A. is my American city."
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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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"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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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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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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"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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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
Creativity
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
Courage
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
Friendship
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
Optimism
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