"Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth."

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Geoffrey West

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“Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?”
“The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.”
“Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.”
“Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.”
“I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.”
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.”
“Gay people donâ€™t actually try to convert people. Thatâ€™s Jehovahâ€™s Witnesses youâ€™re thinking of.”
“There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.”

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