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"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great."

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"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi."

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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

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"I found Rome brick, I left it marble."

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"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."

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"One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound."

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"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."

Baudelaire, Charles · Cities and City Life · 1 fans >>
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"Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake."

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"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."

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"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest."

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