Famous quotes containing the words city, twin, towns, sister and/or cities:
“London ... remains a mans city where New York is chiefly a womans. London has whole streets that cater to mens wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.”
—Louis Kronenberger (19041980)
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth if th other do.”
—John Donne (15721631)
“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my sister. Shes my daughter. My sister, my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my sister and my daughter!”
—Robert Towne (b. 1936)
“The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)