"London is the clearing-house of the world."

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"Edinburgh is alive with words."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."

Thomas Wolfe, American Novelist

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"New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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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."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."

Cecil Beaton, English Photographer

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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."

Jane Byrne, American Politician

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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."

Jerry Rubin, American Activist

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"L.A. is my American city."

Tom Ford, American Designer

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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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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."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come."

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"Edinburgh is alive with words."

"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."

"New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it."

"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."

"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."

"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."

"L.A. is my American city."

"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."

"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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"The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come."

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"London is the clearing-house of the world."