Small Town Life Quotes

• Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

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  Susan Orlean

  Space   Texture   World  

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• Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

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  Ed Koch

  Running   No Friends   Towns  

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• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

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  Buzz Bissinger

  Texas   Curiosity   Odessa  

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• I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

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  Alice Neel

  Art   Drawing   People  

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• I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

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  Josh Lucas

  Thinking   Opposites   Southern  

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• One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

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  Edward Abbey

  Couple   Years   Cities  

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

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  Anna Nicole Smith

  Towns   Small Town   Small Town Life  

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