“I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station—with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries.”

— Sinclair Lewis , book Babbitt

Babbitt (1922), Ch. 7

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States

"Inside the Suit, a Man!," The New York Times (1986-11-05)

“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!”

Ernest Bevin (1881–1951) British labour leader, politician, and statesman

Attributed to Bevin in the Spectator, 20 April 1951.
Bevin's definition of his foreign policy. Variously quoted as "to be able to buy a ticket at Victoria Station to anywhere I damn please!".

“I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

“Ticket to the last station.”

Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) German general

Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation.
Shouted to his Panzertroops as they were passing him, indicating that they should go as far as they could; as quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 83

“I did a bond tour during the Second World War… We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. And we got to Minneapolis. There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. Then I told the audience that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. She was also known in St. Paul, she used to come over to visit me. She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities."”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

I didn't sell any more bonds, but eh... they didn't allow me to appear anymore.
Recounting a War Bonds tour in his Carnegie Hall appearance (6 May 1972)

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

“I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.”

Raymond Chandler book The Lady in the Lake

Source: The Lady in the Lake

“This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”

John Scalzi Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

“They are hideous Golgothas, these old intermural cemeteries of ours. In other cities cemeteries are beautiful with all that the art of the gardener and sculptor can give....There the horror is masked. Here it glares at us with empty sockets. The tombs are fissured, or have caved in, or have crumbled down into shapeless bricks and mortar...[and] crawfish undermine the walls to feast upon what is hidden within.”

Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) writer

Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches, ed. Charles Woodward Hutsun (1880; Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1924), p. 136. Lafcadio Hearn referring to the cemeteries in New Orleans.

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