{"quotes":[{"text":"I lived in Miami for a while  in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.","author":"Gabe Kaplan","tags":["cities","travel"],"id":12518,"author_id":"Gabe+Kaplan"},{"text":"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired  you've had a headache since you arrived  but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.","author":"Simon Hoggart","tags":["cities","travel"],"id":14939,"author_id":"Simon+Hoggart"},{"text":"It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . Everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . To find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everything; where emptiness filled luxurious landscapes till there was nothing but hollow splendor…She hated the pretense.More than hatred, she was frightened of it.","author":"Umair Naeem","tags":["cities","control","karachi"],"id":15971,"author_id":"Umair+Naeem"},{"text":"A car is useless in New York  essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.","author":"Mignon McLaughlin","tags":["cities","travel"],"id":18110,"author_id":"Mignon+McLaughlin"},{"text":"To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["cities","colors","darkness","dejan-stojanovic","eagle","ethereal","eyes","face","face-of-a-woman","feel","feelings","fly","flying","imperceptible","invisible","know","lantern","leaves","matter","memory","moment","moon","mountain","pedestrian","planning","poetry","poets","power","read","reality","shapes","shine","smile","soul","sounds","stormy-day","streets","substances","task-of-a-poet","tree","umbrella","understanding","watching","wave","whisper","world"],"id":19421,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"A soulless city creates soulless people!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["cities","city","city","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","people","soulless","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":21570,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French  I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["cities","travel"],"id":21839,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.","author":"Rawi Hage","tags":["camels","cities","stars","tracks"],"id":22384,"author_id":"Rawi+Hage"},{"text":"It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate.","author":"Thomas Wolfe","tags":["cities","city","contrasts","new-york","new-york-city"],"id":23183,"author_id":"Thomas+Wolfe"},{"text":"It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously  that doesn't include food or lodging.","author":"Kenn Carlson","tags":["cities","travel"],"id":29629,"author_id":"Kenn+Carlson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":196,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}