Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad

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

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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

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

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. – Fred A. Allen

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