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Lewis Mumford He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
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Le Corbusier Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
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Alan Turing Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
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Charlie Cox I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
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Charlie Chaplin When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.
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Charlie Chaplin I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans
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Charlie Chaplin The glamour of it all! New York! America!
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Charles Stross My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.
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Clive Thompson I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
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Alice Walker I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
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Gore Vidal Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
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Paramahansa Yogananda My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
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James McIntyre We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.
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Victor LaValle As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Le Corbusier The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
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Le Corbusier Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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Alexis Wright When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
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Ed Koch Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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Carson McCullers Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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Mark Aaron We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.
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Theo James I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.
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Mick Jagger The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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Noah Baumbach Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
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Noah Baumbach Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
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Rick Riordan So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.
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Rem Koolhaas Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.