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“I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.”

Bigs Light Cities Taste Detroit Big Cities Bright Lights

Author:John Lee Hooker

“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”

Life Cities Produce Citizens Taste Mark Ugly Advertising Anarchy Citizenship Ugliness Good Taste Good Citizen Good Citizenship

Author:Lester Beall

“[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.”

Cities Taste Structure Architecture Combination Officials Conceit Hideous Cathedrals Bad Taste Asphalt

Author:Robert Moses

“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.”

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.”

Cities Danger Taste Adults Excess Vegas Las Vegas Disneyland Good Taste

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.”

Men Whole Body Might Turns Lost Community Cities Dying Havens Taste Busy Graves Occasions Mates Good Taste Breach Undertaker

Book:Lost Haven

Source: Lost Haven

“The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.”

Form Artist Passion Games Cities History Share Taste Glory Theatre Devoted Revenue Amusement Circus Roman Empire Magnificence Spectacles Antioch

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.”

Cities Taste Fastidious

Author:Mason Cooley

“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”

Needs Country Next Waiting Voice Answers Cities Week Taste Familiar Next Week City Life City And Country

Author:Margaret Mead

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”

Thinking Said Together Spirit Walks Cities Cutting Imagine Doors Blood Taste Bed Salvation Ruins These Days Midst Stairs Labyrinth Mazes Rendezvous

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.”

World Home Lasts Given Forget Cities Taste Goodness Glory Hunger Versions Coming Home Appetite Rooted Continuing Thirst Session Forget It Jerusalem Loveliness Outlandish

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel