Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
American Notes— At the Golden Gate http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/AmericanNotes/goldengate.html (1891). <br class="br">Other works
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”
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American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890–1957Related quotes
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version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Gisteren was ik nog even in Rotterdam.. ..'t is toch een mooie stad. Altijd woelig, smerig en schilderachtig, vooral de vest en de havenbuurten, voor 't nieuwe gedeelte geef ik geen duit. <br class="br">Quote from Breitner's letter to A. P. van Stolk, The Hague, 8 Febr. 1882; as cited in Breitner en Parijs' – master-thesis 9928758 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/8382], by Jacobine Wieringa, Faculty of Humanities Theses, Utrecht, (translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 10 <br class="br">before 1890
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André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Cited in: SanSan Kwan, Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces, 2013 p. xxx; Talking about Shanghai
Text originate from a French-made documentary, where "Jin herself associated her (definitely female) identity with the city" of Shanghai.
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Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: We're all mad here.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
