It is disappointing to realize that, hidden beyond these magnificent and promising names, is the same checkerboard city, the same red and green traffic lights and the same provincial look.
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On Albuquerque NM, recalled when the city sought a plan for urban renewal, New York Times (February 5, 1985)Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have many ideas for lights. I will paint only lights at night. (on the twinkling city-lights, fh)
Mark Tobey
Cities are created by and for traffic. A city without traffic is a ghost town.
Robert Moses
Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.Wallace Stevens
(Her favourite memory of her father) I'd have to say spending some 'quality time' away from the two just me and him. One time we went on the roof when we were in Las Vegas of our house and we just saw the Luxor lights, all the city the lights, and we were eating Snickers and we had some soda...
Michael Jackson
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley
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