A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles.
David DetzerTags: humor urban-life
Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people’s control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment, nutrition, law, and so forth.
Haki R. MadhubutiTags: culture urban-life street
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
William KennedyTags: politics history satire sin vice city urban-life jazz-age-stories 1920s bon-mots machine-politics
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
Erol OzanTags: travel urban city urban-life transportation traveling-alone public-transit
I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.
Sheridan HayTags: cities urban-life city-life
Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.
Sheridan HayTags: cities urban-life city-life
With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city has only a painful life to offer the young person who goes there to learn and to study; for sooner or later anyone who lives there, whatever his constitution, becomes disturbed and is eventually deranged and destroyed by the city, often in the most deadly and insidious manner.
Thomas BernhardTags: cities urban-life
In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky?
Damon KnightTags: prose-poetry ennui onomatopoeia urban-life
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
Isaac AsimovTags: crowds urban-life population-density
I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.
Kamila ShamsieTags: beauty dust urban-life rubbish ugly-city
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