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“Now, having left cities behind me, turned Away forever from the strange, gregarious Huddling of men by stones, I find those various Great towns I knew fused into one, burned Together in the fire of my despising.”

Men Together Left Cities Behinds Forever Fire Strange Stones Towns Various Burned Gregarious

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse

“In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.”

Wells Two Cities Known Divine Rivers Stones Towns Bones Defined Reign Well Known Seventies Monk Hideous Fangs Rags Stink Pavement Sewers Cologne Nymphs Wenches

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.”

Eye Wanted Stones Towns

Author:Herta Muller

“I'm not from the heart of Atlanta, I'm from the Eastern outskirts. Stone Mountain is the town - Gambino is from there, Danger Mouse is from there. So there's a lot more greenery, lakes and a mountain you can climb everyday - all kinds of stuff that I'm into. I wear sandals, or a harness - I'm prepared to be outdoors because that's just how I am.”

Heart Kind Stuff Danger Mountain Stones Towns Prepared Everyday All Kinds Climbs Lakes Mice Eastern Harness Atlanta Sandals Greenery

Author:Gucci Mane

“So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.”

Giving Children Government America Asks Stones England Towns Our Children Bread Representatives

Author:John Bright

“In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!”

Stones Towns Prepared Conservative Something New Be Prepared

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.”

War Real Soul Earth Culture Stuff Parent Wonder Fire Heard Rocks Wind Grew Grew Up Stones Towns Classic Freak Isolated Small Town Pennsylvania Hendrix Zeppelins Old Soul Classic Rock

Author:Princess Superstar

“The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.”

Years Bigs Mother Expectations Stones Overcoming Towns Hardest Gaps Coal Hardest Thing Virginia Nineteen Mining Slim Miners Coal Miners Coal Mining

Author:Thomas Jones

“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.”

Thinking Writing Beautiful Reading Modern Building Reader Projects Stones Towns Folks Architecture Soviet Housing Identical Public Housing

Author:Christine Jennings

“This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.”

Hard Time Tree Flower Kings Mountain Beats Bird All Things Stones Towns Ruins Meals Beast Iron Bites Steel Grind Riddle

Book:The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

“The whole town’s talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out of your coma. Then he apparently wouldn’t leave you alone for a minute. The boy sounds hooked.”

Way Whole Sound Rooms Talking Boys Minutes Stones Towns Sat Hospitals Hooked Coma

Author:Abbi Glines

“All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.”

Ifs Hard Stuff Cities Forever Wall Stones Towns Links Stomach Metals Filling Fragments Bumps Wherever You Are Pact Always And Forever Chinks

Author:Lauren Oliver