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People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.


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Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.



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Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.



There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.



Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.



While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.



The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.



This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.



People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.



This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.





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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.



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Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

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