Cities proverbs

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◆ The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

- William Shawn98

◆ I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

- Fred Allen98

◆ Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

- Anatole Broyard98

◆ You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of a fruit fly, and still have room left for three caraway seeds and an agent's heart

- Fred Allen98

◆ Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

- Fred Allen98

◆ That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

- Jerry Della Femina98

◆ They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive.

- Keith Wheeler98

◆ (Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers

- Plutarch98

◆ New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

- Roland Barthes98

◆ Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

- Alistair Cooke98

◆ It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest

- V S Naipaul98

◆ A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.

- Charles Abrams98

◆ The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.

- George Orwell98

◆ France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper

- Billy Wilder98

◆ Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

- William Faulkner98