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“This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Might Used Bits Baseball Towns Edges Intimacy Might Have Been Somewhere Else Toughness Letdowns

Author:David Cone

“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.”

Trying Wells Looks Long Whole Faces Asks Secret Steps Darkness Cutting Son Towns Folks Edges Whole Life Ems Your Face Drag Every Step

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.”

Left Loss Cities Towns Edges Where You Are Suburbs Malls Hometown Kentucky

Author:Richard Hell

“I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.”

Way Whole Kids Grew Drug Safe Grew Up Towns Edges Punk Small Town Hog Straight Edge Punk Music

Author:Daughn Gibson

“People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.”

People World Streets Towns Edges Reporters Small Town

Author:Bill Kurtis

“Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.”

Ifs House Water Modern Changed Towns Edges Boring Architecture Admire Ships Tall Museums Opera Eighty Downtown Harbour Modern Architecture Ferry Opera House Oslo Tall Ships

Author:Jo Nesbo

“There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.”

Needs Ideas Happens Grows Cities Growing Up Crime Majors Towns Edges Housing Affordable Affordable Housing

Author:Conor Oberst

“'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.”

Body Song Darkness Huge Towns Edges Very Happy

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.”

Sometimes School Tvs Mountain Towns Edges Stores Wilderness Cables Alaska Dentist Moose Cable Tv Alaskans

Author:Tom Bodett

“An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.”

People Years Littles Gone Objects Authority Six Built Towns Edges Selling Destroyed Shirts Elsewhere Devoted T Shirt Six Year Olds

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what? People don't talk about anything.”

People Knows Want Looks Long Sometimes Care Fun Race Watches Car Figures Thousand Ten Towns Police Edges Don't Care Parks Do You Know Midnight Fountain Jet Subway Sneak Soda

Author:Ray Bradbury

“She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand.”

Heart Done Hands Eye Force Blood Towns Brave Good Things Bottom Edges Finished Wounds Ghost Sat Meals Trails Closing Coyotes Sensing Brave Heart Ghost Town Almost Done

Author:Michael Grant

“My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.”

Thinking Stills Funny Plans Humorous Towns Edges Witty Wishful Thinking Embryos

Author:Groucho Marx

“His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.”

Want I Can Sometimes Taste Towns Edges Sat Spokes Seconds Pacing Mattresses

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.”

Knows Men May Home Moving Women Company Bears Towns Edges Be A Man Margins Adrift

Author:Toni Morrison

“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.”

Source: A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works

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