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Famous quotes containing the words york and/or john:

“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“For beauties from worth arise
Are like the grace of deities,”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)