#suburbs

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

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#brady #bunch #chicago #deaf #despite

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip. ↗

— Liz Phair

#break #cool #did #hip #i

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell? ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#married-life #single #suburbs #worse #life

Life is funny sometimes. Of course it isn’t as funny as smashing your brand new Mustang convertible into your house and having your life flash before your eyes. Sitting here in my car in the middle of my den, I can't help but think that things could have worked out differently - that could have been happier - that could have lived the life that was meant for me. That was, if I didn't have to keep up with the Greenbergs. ↗

— Phil Wohl

#suburbs #funny

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#been #city #first #i #literature

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#except #hate #haven #i #i was born

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#cliffs #could #jersey #new #new jersey

Small town folk are so mannered towards sameness. City dwellers are so classy about Chinatown, Harlem, Greenwich Village. But suburbanites are the most tolerable of all: lacking either manners or culture, they just sprawl out in their four-bedroom, two child homes and close their doors to all the other four-bedroom, two-child homes. Suburbanites don’t abide, they abed, and we’re all abetter for it, since they don’t know how to say that they don’t have anything to say. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #suburbs #funny