“Waiting in a car, waiting for a ride in the dark. The night city grows—look and see her eyes, they glow. Waiting in a car, waiting for a ride in the dark / Drinking in the lounge, following the neon signs / Waiting for a roar, looking at the mutating skyline / The city is my church” --M83 from the song “Midnight City”
“The city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.” –William Wordsworth
“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.” --Augusten Burroughs
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together.” –Henry David Thoreau
“The catalogue of shapes and forms is endless—every shape in the universe has found its own city. New cities will continue to be born. When forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.” --Italo Calvino
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