City Life Quotes

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" "The dirt of towns is beautiful to me." "The great truth is this that even in Moscow the days sometimes turn out fair and the sunsets are sometimes astonishing." "There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless" "It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story." "Cities are the absence of physical space between people." "The most wonderful city imaginable which has only one drawback, always too crowded. " "How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home." "Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance — nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city — as one loses oneself in a forest — that calls for quite a different schooling." "The reward of living was to be in the thick of the street," "It’s fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!"