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“London is on the whole the most possible form of life.”
― Henry James, The Complete Notebooks of Henry James: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition

“Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.

And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.”
― Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.”
― Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works