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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.


Clay Shirky


#dating #dating

The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world.


Cormac McCarthy


#death #death

And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life—the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually acknowledge and experience this fact.


Daniël Robberechts


#experience

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.


Neil Gaiman


#geography #humor #humour #humor

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.


Noël Coward


#buildings #cities #london #morality #skyscrapers

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.


Alan Moore


#cities #clothes #houses #life #machines

Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.


Sheridan Hay


#city-life #urban-life #life

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.


Nelson Algren


#cities #love #lovely #love

It is a far far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." protagonist, facing the guillotine, sacrificing himself for the sake of his love


Charles Dickens


#cities #dickens #rest #revolution #tale

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.


Jo Bonner


#displaced #families #hearts #homes #horrific






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