Quotes by Conrad, Peter

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose >>

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to >>

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitabil >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nons >>

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for cler >>

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolesc >>

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter