Urban Oasis Effect

Famous quotes containing the words urban, oasis and/or effect:

“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“Are you not the oasis where I dream, and the gourd from which I drink in long draughts the wine of memory?”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“In effect it seemed to him that, though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior: advantages, even, that were well-nigh boundless in their scope.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)