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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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"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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"L.A. is my American city."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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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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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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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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"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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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
Change
"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."
Work
"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
Life
"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."
Death
"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."
Death
"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."
Home
"Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind."
Time
"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."
Writing
"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
Man
"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
City
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