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"L.A. is my American city."
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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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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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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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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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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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"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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Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Society
"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
Soul
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
Memory
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
Age
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
Man
"When in doubt, do it."
Doubt
"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
"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."
Truth
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