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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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"Cities must be fun."
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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
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"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
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"Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy."
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"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."
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"The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry."
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"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
God
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
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"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."
Blood
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
Friendship
"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."
Talk
"My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely."
Life
"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."
Writing
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
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"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."
Reticence
"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
God
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