"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."

Jane Byrne, American Politician

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

Joseph Chamberlain, British Politician

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

Cecil Beaton, English Photographer

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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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"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

City, Chicago, Difference, Hell, 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."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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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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"By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary."

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"The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature."

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"The power to define the situation is the ultimate power."

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"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex."

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"Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy."

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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."

"L.A. is my American city."

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

"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."

"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."

"Edinburgh is alive with words."

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

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"I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s."

"Don't trust anyone over thirty."

"The backseat produced the sexual revolution."

"The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power."

"I'm famous. That's my job."

"By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary."

"The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature."

"The power to define the situation is the ultimate power."

"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex."

"Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy."