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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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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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"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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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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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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"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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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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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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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."
Truth
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
Hope
"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
Mortality
"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
Age
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
Resilience
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
Faith
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
Imagination
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Truth
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