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Source: Death is a Lonely Business

“Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.”

People Ends Lost Continents Trails Venice Wagons

Source: Death is a Lonely Business

“For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.”

“....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.”

Together Thirds Rate Hotel Weed Decay Apartment Coast Venice Breeding Mosquitoes Canals

Book:Little Boy Blue

Source: Little Boy Blue

“I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.”

Art Students Scene California Paris Venice

Book:Notes

Source: Notes

“There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.”

People Want Two Reason Might Wanted Artist Movement Areas Sells Moved Studios Practicals More Money Venice

Author:Roger Corman

“Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.”

Persons Poor Proof Beach Looking Good Impossibility Venice Venice Beach

Author:Douglas Coupland

“All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.”

Doe States Cutting Sea Obvious California Regions Los Angeles Venice Transcendentalism

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides”

Men Nations Sides Practice Arms California Venice

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.”

Years Film Guy President Talking Situation Like Me Beach Going Out Homeless Venice Boardwalks Venice Beach

Author:John Cusack

“...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.”

Seems Artist Struggle Havens Drug Adults Camps Ashes Addict Venice Phoenix Drug Addict Legendary Outlaw Demented

Author:Sara Davidson

“To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.”

Ocean Parks Venice Youngsters Gaiety

Author:Marion Davies

“Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.”

Character My Favorite Destroyed Beach Consumerism Venice Berkeley Gentrification Aspens

Author:Tom Hayden

“This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.”

Ends Starting Over Venice

Book:Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Faith

Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Faith

“You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.”

Walking Beach Venice Malibu

Author:Del Howison

“...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.”

Has Beens Contemporary American History Venice Inception

Author:Liam Neeson

“Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!”

Streets Fronts Crafts Pockets Performers Crap Venice Wallets Homemade Street Performers

Author:Camryn Manheim

“When you come to Venice, you do special work.”

Special Venice

Author:Bruce Paltrow

“It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.”

America Energy Lines Faults Urban Pacific Venice Collide Flotsam

Author:Antoine Predock

“Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.”

Television Needed Happenings Venice

Author:Barbet Schroeder

“This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.”

Feels Venice

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs.”

Men Kind Stills Past Given Waiting Land Dog Given Up Venice Default Appointments Hanging Around

Book:The big orange

Source: The big orange

“These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.”

People I Can Movement Beach California Village San Francisco Venice Notorious Greenwich Greenwich Village

Book:Zen & the Beat Way

Source: Zen & the Beat Way

“Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima”

Feels Shoulders Over You Venice Crooked Domes

Author:Jan Morris

“My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!”

Feels Beautiful Faces My Own Sea Fans Wind Breaths Native Veins Breeze Calmness Venice Sea Breeze

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.”

Earth Dear Pleasant Venice Festivities Masque

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.”

Spirit Miscellaneous Venice Splendour

Author:John Ruskin

“If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.”

Ifs Venice

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'”

Venice

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.”

Feelings Beautiful Lost Easy Cities Building Color Caught Peaceful Caught Up Gorgeous Venice Labyrinth Beautiful Colors

Author:Nanette Lepore

“There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.”

World Different Habit Garden Sight Everyday Accustomed Venice Places In The World Enchanted

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.”

Trying Art Night Water Church Cities Gone Quiet Legs Shirts Mask Cracks Museums Lunch Squares Echoes Great Art Venice Canals Horde Gondolas

Author:Rick Steves

“I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.”

Dream Found Impossible Venice

Author:Arthur Symons

“Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .”

Whole Seems Cities Gold Weight Massive Covered Bells Bees Towers Lilies Venice Pollen

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Streets flooded. Please advise.”

Streets Please Advise Venice

Author:Robert Benchley

“Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.”

Ifs Would Be Cities Fine Venice Drained

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”

Lost Cities Cry Arms Bird Blue Expected Flesh Worried Maps Shade Squares Stillness Sunlight Tourists Venice Flocks Pavement Dreamy Oar Swaying

Book:The Newton Letter

Source: The Newton Letter

“At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.”

Two Studios Saving Burning Chests Electric Wire Spectators Venice Doorways Boardwalks

Book:Chris Burden, February 18, 1976

Source: Chris Burden, February 18, 1976

“Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.”

Should Mean Cities Treasure Spots New Orleans Venice

Author:Ed McMahon

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?”

Hands Eye Passion Affection Jew Senses Dimensions Instruction Organs Venice Merchants Merchant Of Venice Shylock Merchant Of Venice Famous No Revenge

Author:William Shakespeare

“It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.”

Thinking Men Writing Has Beens Different Reason Process Results Gone Subjects Mines Angry Fortune Tolerance Likes Satisfied Pardon Venice

Book:Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men

Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men

“The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real.”

Real Seems Wonder Offers Incredibles Glasses Guarantees Peers Venice Guarantees That Reassurance Canals

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.”

Mind Cities Doubt Poet Myth Dry Venice Inspection Honeymooners

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?”

Wonder Failing Feet Gold Intelligent Deception Impulse Destructive Idols Clay Cliche Venice

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”

World Made Eye White Saint Beast Unconscious Dragons Venice Guarded Misers

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.”

Years Facts Humor Funny Cities Millions Humorous Lovely Enormous Despite Italian Elsewhere Venice Visitors Sewers

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.”

Film Comedy Italian Festivals Venice Film Festivals

Author:Robert Englund

“I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.”

Years Age Film Fun Path Taken Dangerous Walking Presses Rate Agents Festivals Venice Casualties Film Festivals

Author:Ethan Hawke

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