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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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"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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"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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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
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"Cities must be fun."
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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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"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."
Talk
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
Conversation
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Success
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
Urbanism
"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."
Music
"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."
Reticence
"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."
Writing
"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
Travel
"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
Fame
"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
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