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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front”

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