Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
A little bit of this town goes a very long way.
Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him. "
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup. Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 510ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida. " Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.
Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and executed it in the evening, are here unknown quantities.
An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.
That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.
I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?
