#suburbs

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#breeding #class #crime #delirium #grounds

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#changing #contempt #eventually #expanding #find

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret. ↗

— James Denton

#anything #because #city #described #each

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other. ↗

— John Green

#chicago #different #each #eventually #guys

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. ↗

— James Iha

#grew #i #suburbs #up

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#des #des moines #i #new #new york

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#end #ghosts #having #i #in the end

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while. ↗

— Christopher Brookmyre

#death #ennui #satire #suburbs #death

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#alaska #any #even #everything #grew