The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants to…

Colum McCann
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The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday. ✨ Colum McCann (2009). Let The Great World Spin, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing
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