To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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I like to visit New York but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.
Vulgar of manner overfed. Overdressed and underbred Heartless Godless hell's delight Rude by day and lewd by night Bedwarfed the man o'ergrown the brute Ruled by boss and prostitute Purple-robed and pauper-clad Raving rotting money-mad A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh A wilderness of human flesh Crazed with avarice lust and rum New York thy name's Delirium.
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
The people are the city.
In the busy haunts of men.
God made the country and man made the town.
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.
Far from gay cities and the way of men.
This poor little one-horse town.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.
Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space.
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
8. Conditions of DialogueThe functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the realization of ourselves (our uncoupling from the system of isolation). This is useful and utilitarian. Nothing else. All the rest represents only trivial derivations of the practical, and its mystification.
The city's all brightnessand shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.