“No town has greater right on you than the other. The best town for you is that which bears you.”
“My troops are bound to me as a cow is bound to its calf; but like a son who, hating his mother, leaves his city, my princely sister holy has run away from me back to brick-built Kulaba. If she loves her city and hates me, why does she bind the city to me? If she hates the city and yet loves me, why does she bind me to the city?”
“It shall be remembered that the first to be mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures as a builder of cities was at the same time the first murderer — Cain. (Gen. 4:17.)”
“The size of a town rarely determines my pleasure. If a person does not enjoy a small town, it's likely he is too small-minded to delight in the ordinary.”
“Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.”
“Those who live in the present have a future.”
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Not who you're looking for? Others named CITY: large human settlement · Finnish magazine · village in mid-Wales, United Kingdom · 1952 fix-up novel by Clifford D. Simak
