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1 " When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds. "
― Christopher Henry Dawson , Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson
2 " Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Pretties (Uglies, #2)
3 " You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time. "
― Lauren Beukes , Moxyland
4 " Imagine," she said, after registering, " a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." " You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. " Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti? 'Oh, do me, Marco! "
5 " New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless. "
― Henry Miller , Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
6 " I could decorate a whole city with books! "
― Sima Mittal
