berlin, n.All

The Berlin is a city in which you can learn just about anything in the world except the German language.

Berlin is the spirit of destructive conquest. It has lost its right to be the capital of the Germany of the future . . . The city is without a real history, without landscape, without architecture and without charm.

Berlin is a place where things are serious but not hopeless. In vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Berlin is a fine town, excellent music, cheap living, very passable theater, plenty of newspapers in the cafes .... In a word, splendid, quite splendid - if only the Germans weren't so frightfully bourgeois.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time the Soviet Union wants the West to scream, it squeezes on Berlin.

Berlin is a city inhabited by a race of men who are so bold that one does not get very far with them by being delicate . One has to talk back to them, and one may even have to become tough, if one wants to hold one's own.

Berlin is the grey city

Berlin is poor but sexy (arm aber sexy)