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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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"L.A. is my American city."
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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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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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"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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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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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"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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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
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"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
"Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind."
Time
"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
Man
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
Success
"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
Life
"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
Experience
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
Trust
"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
Business
"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."
Man
"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
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