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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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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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"L.A. is my American city."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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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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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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."
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"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."
College
"From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important."
Time
"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."
Leadership
"If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment."
Environment
"Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life."
Life
"L.A. is my American city."
City
"As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded."
Fashion
"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"
Actor
"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
Sympathy
"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
Now
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