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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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"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."
"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
"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."
"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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"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."
"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."
"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
"America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."
"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
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