London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Tags: london



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I like walking round London at night, I do it all the time. Not for no reason, just cos... it's home, innit? It's brilliant, you can't ever get bored of London cos even if you live here for like a hundred and fifty years you still won't ever know everything about it. There's always something new. Like, you're walking round somewhere you've known since you was born and you look up and there's an old clock on the side of a building you never seen before, or there's a little gargoyley face over a window or something. Don't you think it's cool?

Richard Rider

Tags: pip london



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I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's a bit nerdy. I'm more interested in that than in where they're from. I'm more interested in what people do.

Craig Taylor

Tags: true nerd nonfiction london representation



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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: sherlock-holmes crime intellect london superiority detectives criminals



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I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.

Nick Bantock

Tags: depression london angry made-me-laugh



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Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.

Catharine Arnold

Tags: death dead london cemeteries necropolis



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In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way of life with consumer entincements, introducing them to the urbane pleasures of hot spas and fine dining, encouraging them to wear togas and speak Latin.

Catharine Arnold

Tags: london consumer-culture romans britons



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And a ton came down on a coloured road,
And a ton came down on a gaol,
And a ton came down on a freckled girl,
And a ton on the black canal,

And a ton came down on a hospital,
And a ton on a manuscript,
And a ton shot up through the dome of a church,
And a ton roared down to the crypt.

And a ton danced over the Thames and filled
A thousand panes with stars,
And the splinters leapt on the Surrey shore
To the tune of a thousand scars.

Mervyn Peake

Tags: wwii war london bombing bomb blitz



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My hero is the mayor in Jaws. He's a fantastic guy, and he keeps the beaches open, if you remember, even after it's demonstrated that his constituents have been eaten by this killer fish. Of course, he was proved catastrophically wrong in his judgment, but his instincts were right.'

Boris Johnson is the mayor of London.
Taken from Time Magazine interview: June 25, 2012; page 76.

Boris Johnson

Tags: jaws london mayor



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I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life.

Caroline Green

Tags: life london dad-shaped-hole old-bedroom



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