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Places

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Truman Capote

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California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.... It's sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem.

D. H. Lawrence

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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Anonymous

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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Katherine Mansfield

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Le Corbusier

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