Towns Quotes

• The town was paper, but the memories were not.

  John Green

  Memories, Hipster, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

  John Green

  Fake, Paper, Enough

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.57, A&C Black

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• A paper town for a paper girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.293, A&C Black

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• You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

  John Green

  Hipster, Paper

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• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Cities, Swamps

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

  John Green

  Places You Go, Paper, Dies

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• In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

  Mario Batali

  New York, Food, New Orleans

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

  John Green

  Book, Knowing, People

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Ideas

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• In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

  Stephen King

  Wind, People, Noses

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.262, Anchor

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• I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

  John Green

  Hipster, Inspiration, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.203, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

  Anne Lamott

  Recovery, Monkeys, Circus

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• If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

  John Green

  Motivational, Hipster, Imagine

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.299, A&C Black

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• As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

  John Green

  Life, Hipster, Long

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

  Drake

  Home, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Successful, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

  John Green

  Planning, Anticipation, Pleasure

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Wall, Heart, Civilization

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

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• I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know.

  Eliza Dushku

  Girl, Flower, Grandma

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

  John Green

  People, Listening, Trying

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.216, A&C Black

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• It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Hipster

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

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• The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Hands, Soul

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• Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Mother, Father, Grandparent

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• It`s hard to beat something with nothing. Republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of the electorate which is descending on GOP town halls and these folks want answers.

  Chuck Todd

  Country, Feelings, Answers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

  Chuck Todd

  Mean, Opposites, Roots

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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