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“There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.”

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Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.”

Source: Song of Kali

“What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady”

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Book:Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Source: Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

“But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”

“The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.”

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Author:Malcolm Mclaren

“Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.”

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Author:Patrick Ewing

“Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.”

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Author:Sanjay Dutt

“I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!”

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Author:Ioan Gruffudd