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Just for a while: Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans.Join the Rat Race just for a while.Concentrate on your career just for a while.Move in with your girlfriend just for a while.Find a bigger place, out in the burbs just for a while.Lie down in that wooden box just for a while.

~ Christopher Brookmyre

Christopher Brookmyre Burbs Death Ennui Satire Suburbs

They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.

~ Michael Davidow

Michael Davidow Politics Suburbs

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

~ Melissa Bank

Melissa Bank Peace Suburbs

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value

~ Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader Capitalism Feminism Gender Roles Housewives Suburbia Suburbs

I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies.

~ Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Depression Fish Out Of Water Suburbs Young Adulthood

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

~ Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins Book Chambers City Dreaming Night Reading Rouse Suburbs

Years from now, I will pass this same park, and I won’t remember any of this.Instead, I will feel something like a spark— a heat like Augustin a suburban town,and a desire to groweven when I know I’ll be cut down.

~ Kris Kidd

Kris Kidd Adolescencescence Suburbs Youth

People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like it's a big deal to be unaccompanied in New York City at that age. It's populated with both adults and children, it's a functioning metropolis, Kevin McCallister was only ten in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and that kid saved Christmas. Conversely, people from suburban areas act like my parents sent me wandering around the site of the Baby Jessica well, blindfolded and holding a flaming baton. So pick a side and prepare to judge me either way!

~ Anna Kendrick

Anna Kendrick Adolescence Childhood City Safety Show Business Suburbs

Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.

~ Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser America Enclosure Futureshock Isolationism Suburbs Withdrawal

He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred and perversion, and there was no escaping it. Everything you worked for, everything you loved, had to be locked up as if you were in a castle under siege.

~ T.c. Boyle

T.c. Boyle Fear Protection Safety Suburbs Violence

Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing projects,' the emotional isolation of people who must live in them, or the development of certain extreme reactions of rejection, chiefly among youth, simply betray the fact that modern capitalism, the bureaucratic society of consumption, is here and there beginning to shape its own setting. This society, with its new towns, is building the terrain that accurately represents it, combining the conditions most suitable for its proper functioning, while at the same time translating in space, in the clear language of organization of everyday life, its fundamental principle of alienation and constraint. It is likewise here that the new aspects of its crisis will be manifested with the greatest clarity.

~ Tom Mcdonough

Tom Mcdonough 153 Alienation Capitalism City Situationist Suburbs Urban Planning

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

~ Victoria Kahler

Victoria Kahler Neighborhoods Night Shadows Suburbs Summer Summer Nights

Life is funny sometimes. Of course it isn’t as funny as smashing your brand new Mustang convertible into your house and having your life flash before your eyes. Sitting here in my car in the middle of my den, I can't help but think that things could have worked out differently - that could have been happier - that could have lived the life that was meant for me. That was, if I didn't have to keep up with the Greenbergs.

~ Phil Wohl

Phil Wohl Envy Suburbs

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Chicago City Countryside Migraine Suburbs

...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years—so typical a place that it only looks like an exception.

~ Jerry Herron

Jerry Herron Americans Cities Detroit Suburbanism Suburbs Towns United States Urbanism
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