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Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

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All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.

Dam, Highway, Rivers, Technology, Top, Track
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At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Night, Light, Cities, Seattle, Look

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

Assessment, Cities, Disposal, Ecological, Serious, Unique

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Travel, Book, Journey, Embraces, Metaphors, Rehearses

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

America, Feet, Heroic, Mythical, Rude, Sentimental

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Distance, Reality, Scary, Effectively, Jetliners
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