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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beautys heightening… – Matthew Arnold

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. – Fred A. Allen

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