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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Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

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

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien

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

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