"Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence."

-- Clive James

#Humorous Quotes #Reality Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I don't have goals in life.”
“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".”
“As is commonly said, â€˜to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.â€™”
“The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.”
“I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.”
“There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“I like challenges that test your ingenuity.”
“Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.”

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