Quote by John Ciardi
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the wors

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. – John Ciardi

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You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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Poetry
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. – John Ciardi

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College
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. – Fred A. Allen

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

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

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard

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So, yes, theres nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. – Jodie Foster

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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. – James Tobin

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teacher

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation… – Desiderius Erasmus, Adages

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Quotations

If guys dont respect themselves, they dont respect other people. Thats times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it dont take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. – Richard Petty

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respect