"Edinburgh is alive with words."

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

Joseph Chamberlain, British Politician

City, London, World

"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

City, War, Urbanism, Security, Violence

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

City, Chicago, Comfort

"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

City, Chaos, Society, Change

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

Rupert Brooke, English Poet

City, Cats, Cities, Night, Will

"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

City, Theater

"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

"L.A. is my American city."

Tom Ford, American Designer

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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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"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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"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

Relationship

"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."

Loneliness

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

Talent

"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."

History

"It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think " the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late."

Society

"Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt."

Mystery

"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."

Writing

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."

"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."

"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."

"L.A. is my American city."

"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."

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

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"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

"You have no future when the past rules you."

"When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it."

"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."

"It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think " the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late."

"Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt."

"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."