It is melancholy to sit on the piled stones amidst the wreck of this wonderful edifice (the Ramaseum), where violence inconceivable to us has been used to destroy what art inconceivable to us has erected. What a rebuke to the vanity of succeeding ages is here! What have we been about, to imagine men in […]
Places Quotes
South Dakota: A part of hell with the fires burnt out.
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake, and behind the facade every type of dubiousness. (Chicago)
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. (Dame Edna)
Well, at least we won’t have to go back through South Dakota. Apochryphal last words
Spain imports tourists and exports chambermaids.
Winnipeg is like Fargo, North Dakota, without the action.
In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and […]
New York… that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
I think this is how Chicago got started – A bunch of people in New York said, ‘Gee, I’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. Let’s go west.’
