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To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two...2. Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent.3. The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they... Jane Jacobs
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed. Kurt Vonnegut
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. Jack Kerouac
Don DeLillo quote: "a traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions,..."
a traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them. Don DeLillo
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. Guy de Maupassant
Wilfred Owen quote: "Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your..."
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. Wilfred Owen
There was a dense fog in my brain, impenetrable to any coherent thought, except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi concsiousness and numb idiocy. Arthur Koestler
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "Light! give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on... Helen Keller
Ann Patchett quote: "Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright,..."
Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized. Ann Patchett
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. Emile Zola
A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush. Tim Murphy
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. Lion Feuchtwanger
Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. Andrew von Eschenbach
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound. Les Paul
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. Jules Verne

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