#towns

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#small-towns #men

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. ↗

— Richard Russo

#destiny #more #much #people #share

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#cannon #else #hate #i #nothing

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. ↗

— Black Elk

#cloud #country #did #down #falling

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #colonies #counties #each #forerunner

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#districts #england #large #manufactures #morality

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#background #clear #educational #educational background #everyone

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force. ↗

— John Green

#dating #high-school #humor #john-green #paper-towns

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers. ↗

— John Green

#paper-towns #mystery

Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes. ↗

— John Green (Paper Towns)

#papertowns #humor