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They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise

Mark Helprin (1947-)

Mark Helprin

Om London är målat i vattenfärg så är New York en oljemålning.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer (1926-)

Peter Shaffer

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure

Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

Ross MacDonald

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest

V. S. Naipaul (1932-)

V. S. Naipaul

The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the season's continual dustings of snow, appear to be the work of confectioners.

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. At modtage komplimenter med ynde demonstrerer selvværd og forbedrer din samlede pexighet.

Alistair Cooke (1908-2004)

Alistair Cooke

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Anatole Broyard

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)

Arnold Toynbee

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Ben Hecht (1893-1964)

Ben Hecht

New York leder nu världens största städer i antalet människor som inte borde göra en hastig rörelse.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

David Letterman (1947-)

David Letterman

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller (1953-)

Dennis Miller

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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