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If you would
be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would
know, and not be known, live in a city.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
When a village
ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its
narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates
to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one
re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New
Yorkers are yokels.
-- Paul Goodman
1911-1972, American Author,
Poet, Critic
Country people
tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness
and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while
people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to
themselves all manner of cleverness.
-- Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist,
Essayist
How soon
country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it
is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never
was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive
at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the
wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know
they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much
new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
-- Toni Morrison
1931-, African-American
Novelist
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