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suburb
«European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles»
Author: Cedric Belfrage
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
Angeles, European, imperialism, long ago, missionaries, Paris, radio, suburb, Tahiti
«I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
boring, conforming, Everything or Nothing, exciting, suburb, sum, sum up, vast
«I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
details, idle, pleases, suburb, suburbs, suppresses, without thinking
«If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, Phileas Fogg would still be in the air, the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have had time to tell anyone his story.»
Author: Michael Winerip
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Ancient Mariner, bookstore, bookstores, jack, Jack Kerouac, Kerouac, mariner, mariners, set out, suburb, suburbs
«Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.»
«In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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address, expanding, inhabited, metropolis, on the side, outcast, suburb, suburbs, the metropolis
«And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: / Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses; / Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses; / And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness: / Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.»
Author: Bible
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Aaron, Amariah, brethren, by name, congregation, congregations, courses, daughters, Eden, genealogies, holiness, Jeshua, Old Course, portions, reckoned, sanctified, sanctifies, Shemaiah, Sons of, suburb, suburbs, upward
«Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
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Angeles, city, In Search Of, search, suburb, suburbs
«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»
«In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,Is best to lodge.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
elephant, in the south, lodge, lodges, lodging, South, suburb, suburbs, The Elephant, the South