God made the country, and man made the town. – William Cowper, The Task, 1785
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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
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and its one of the most satisfying parts of writing. – Karen Thompson Walker
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what Im attempting to do right now. – Angela Davis
Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later theyre going to get fired. – William Goldman
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne
