Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
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