Venice

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is a city which would be fine if it were only drained.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained. GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885)

The most triumphant city I ever set eyes on. [of Venice] COMMYNE, Phillipe de (1477-1511)

is, along with Florence, simply a museum of Renaissance times.

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place. Werner Herzog

is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. (news summary), November 26, 1981 CAPOTE, Truman (1924 )

is the madness of genius in that, first, it is a city built where it is impossible to build a city, and second that that city be one of the most elegant and grandest of cities.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen

is a city in which each writer who works there comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

is a city where you can get seasick crossing the street.

There's no place like Venice. Where else can you get seasick crossing the street?

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