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“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.”

Light Might Used Felt Cities Imagine Sky Mountain Lows Oneself Weather Evening Britain Marine Right Direction Seattle Damp Lingering Homely Latitude

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.”

People Ifs Book Enough Shows Inspiration Motivation Cities Nice Imagine Streets Gallery

Author:JR

“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.”

Problem Dream Order Space Numbers Cities Fiction Technology Imagine Science Fiction Including New Technology

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know”

Knows Given Cities Imagine Plans Program Why Not Soviet Representatives Rockets Disneyland Pads Launching

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.”

Knows Years Cities Imagine Ought Europe Towns Paradise Parks Fifty Lakes Detroit Matured Enchanting

Book:The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection

Source: The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection

“The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.”

Book Secret Cities Imagine Library Forgotten Fantastic Bridges Sections Palaces Tunnels Cemetery Labyrinth Barcelona Arches

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.”

Ifs America Cities Imagine Worst Capture American Cities Indianapolis

Author:John Green

“Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.”

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.”

Book Moments Would Be Cities Existence Imagine Stage Security New York Projects Islam Musical Productions New York City Jerusalem Unimaginable Baghdad Precaution Beirut

Author:Sam Harris

“I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.”

Ifs Feels I Can Bigs Kids Grows Cities Growing Up Imagine Raises Chicago Imagine That Big Cities

Author:Chris McCaughan

“I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.”

Kids Age School Moving Given Born Cities Imagine Raised Texas New Orleans Boston Adapted Dallas Born And Raised Impressionable Always Moving Dallas Texas

Author:Aeriel Miranda