“He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.”
Source: The Talented Mr. Ripley
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American novelist and short story writer 1921–1995Related quotes

“If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.”
The Hunter (1962), using the pseudonym Richard Stark

Quote from Kirchner's Notebook entry 'Meine Strasenbilder', 24 Augustus 1919; as quoted in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik, M. M. Moeller, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1990 p. 184
1916 - 1919
“Wars were not made by young men, he thought, yet they had to fight them.”
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 14 "The Toast is Victory!"

As quoted in "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" http://www.cilicia.com/armo22_william_saroyan_2.html by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times (26 March 1997).