Quotes of Metropoli - somelinesforyou

“ I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All great art is born of the metropolis. ”

- Ezra

“ 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. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn…endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat… ”

- Morrow Mayo
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