The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
I don't like people who don't have opinions.