“ Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. ”
- Vita Sackville West- Copy
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“ Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: earthquake. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and "retro" clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games… ”
- Jean Francois Lyotard- Copy
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“ American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it… ”
- Jackie Chan- Copy
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