Quotes on places
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
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John Steinbeck Quotes
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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Mark Twain Quotes
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
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Alec Waugh Quotes
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
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Michael Ventre Quotes
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
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James Agate Quotes
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.
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Katherine Mansfield Quotes
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
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Harry S. Truman Quotes
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Author Unknown Quotes
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Christopher Morley Quotes
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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William Lyon Phelps Quotes
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
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Henry Miller Quotes
It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.
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Ashley Montagu Quotes
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
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E. B. White Quotes
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
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Phil Ochs Quotes
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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Truman Capote Quotes
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes