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Up to that point, my entire existence had transpired within the confines of the Mission District, that multicolored, polyglot multitude of emigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Italy; Mexicans who had always lived in California; and a
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“Let me walk. Let me go at my own pace. Let me feel life as it moves through me and around me. Give me drama. Give me unexpected curvilinear corners. Give me unsettling churches and beautiful storefronts and parks I can lie down in. The city turns you on, gets you going, moving, thinking, wanting, engaging. The city is life itself.”
― Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
― Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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