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London
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“... to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.”
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“... until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.”
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“Fog and hypocrisy — that is to say, shadow, convention, decency — these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.”
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“The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.”
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“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.”
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“London, how could one ever be tired of it?”
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“This city is entirely in the mind. It is a construct of the memory and of the intellect.”
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“London is the best place in the world for the happy and the unhappy, there is a floating capital of sympathy for every human good or evil ...”
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“In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.”