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Quote by Cyril Connolly
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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Home
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

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Cities
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

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Cities

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

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Cities

Cities are the abyss of the human species. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile

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Cities

God made the country, and man made the town. – William Cowper, The Task, 1785

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