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“I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.”

Knows Trying Kind Country Sometimes Lost Pleasure Cities Cadillacs

Author:Black Francis

“People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.”

People Ifs Law Lost Pleasure Cities Sun Streets Desert Cushions Searching For Love

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.”

Heart Seems Pain Humanity Pleasure Cities Share Gains Strive Busy Great Hearts

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”

Pleasure Cities Squares

Book:Browning: Poems

Source: Browning: Poems

“If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.”

Ifs Pleasure Cities Curiosity Pursuit Stillness Idle Mirth Wanton

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

Ifs Hands Left Pleasure Cities New York Tables New York City Salt Flavor Bangs Bucks Spices Loaded Waiter Indigestion Cholesterol Appetizers

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.”

Joy Pleasure Cities Fantasy Venice

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.”

People May Doe Pain Hurt Pleasure Cities Ready Balance Rose Paris Justification Crowns Martyr Thorns Immorality Frivolity Fierceness Crown Of Thorns Irreligion

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton