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