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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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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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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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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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"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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"L.A. is my American city."
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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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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."
Love
"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."
Nature
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."
Love
"The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets."
Love
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
City
"A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."
Literature
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