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Boston
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*We visited a bar, which was
a great relief, for in Boston, bars are occupied by serious drinkers who are
not discommoded by the sight of a small scarlet head emerging from a person's
shirt pocket and looking about. Boston drinkers see worse things even when
sober.
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-George, a character in "Perfectly Formal",
by Euphrosyne Durando, a character in Isaac Asimov's "Cal", 1990
Gold: The Final Science Fiction
Collection, 1995
Part One: The Final Stories
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Los Angeles
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When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in
Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72.
However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los
Angeles.
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-Neil Simon
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New York
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a
catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
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-Le Corbusier
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There's no room for amateurs, even in crossing
the streets.
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-George Segal
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Skyscraper National Park.
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-Kurt Vonnegut
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New York is to the nation what the white church
spire is to the village-the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white
plume saying the way is up!
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-E.B. White
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Paris
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*[About Paris]
[A]ll heroes of the people in all countries since 1789 have been made of the spirit
of her thinkers and poets.
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-Victor Marie Hugo
Les Misérables, 1862
Part Three : Marius, Book I, "Paris in Microcosm", Ch. XI, "Mockery and Rule"br>
Norman Denny, trans., 1976
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*It has been
scientifically demonstrated that air taken from immediately above a dung-heap
is purer than the air of Paris.
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-Victor Marie Hugo
Les Misérables, 1862
Part Five : Jean Valjean, Book II, "The Entrails of the Monster", Ch. VI, "Future
Progress"
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