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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? — Jane Jacobs

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. — Jane Jacobs

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs

Atheists are not Americans. — George H. W. Bush

City diversity represents accident and chaos. — Jane Jacobs

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order. — Jane Jacobs

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it. — Boyd Rice

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. — Judy Davis

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away. — Jane Jacobs

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life. — Pat Benatar

I grew up in a house with very few books. — Ken Livingstone

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs

The Puerto Ricans who come to our cities today have no place to roast pigs outdoors... — Jane Jacobs

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other. — Jane Jacobs

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. — Jane Jacobs

was adept, but it had been a while since — Sue Grafton

Frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. — Jane Jacobs

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end. — Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. — Jane Jacobs

I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement. — Jamie Johnson

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters. — Mike Quigley

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans. — Jane Jacobs

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination. — Jane Jacobs

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements? — Jane Jacobs

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. — Jane Jacobs

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas. — Jane Jacobs

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. — Rachel Kushner

I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame. — Steve Zahn

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery. — OMI

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. — Paulo Coelho

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — Jane Jacobs