"What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?"

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Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

Rabih Alameddine

#Cities Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Grants Quotes

“I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.”
“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”
“When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book II, ch. 5), 1688.
“No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.”
“While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.”

Source : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.
“As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.”
“The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”

Source : "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.
“Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today”

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