Quote by Somerset Maugham
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but

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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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

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The city disappears street by street as you enter it. – Ian Seed

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. – Herbert Prochnow

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

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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht

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