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Top 10 Lauren Elkin Quotes (2024 Update)

Lauren Elkin Quote: “What does our neighborhood say about us? What is the value of a neighborhood? Mine is a mirror of my past choices. Pick your path and see where it goes. Pick a subject and see where it leads. Most assuredly you won’t be able to predict anything along the way.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “Living between cities, we are abandoned by them as much as they are by us, because if they gave us all we needed, we wouldn’t have to leave.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “The streets of Paris had a way of making me stop in my tracks, my heart suspended. They seemed saturated with presence, even if there was no one there but me. These were places where something could happen, or had happened, or both; a feeling I could never have had at home in New York, where life is inflected with the future tense.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “I walk because it confers – or restores – a feeling of placeness. The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning, when we see it as something to be perceived, apprehended, experienced.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “Environments inhabit us,′ Varda said. These places that we take into ourselves and make part of us, so that we made of all the places we’ve loved, or of all the places where we’ve changed. We pick up bits and pieces from each of them, and hold them all in ourselves.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “We get to know our cities on hoot, and when we leave, the topography shifts. We’re no longer as surefooted. But maybe that’s a good thing. It’s just a question of looking, and of not hoping to see something else when we do. Maybe it’s good to keep some distance from the things we know well, to always be slightly out of sync with them, not to pretend mastery. Beneath the cities we don’t recognize are stacked all the cities we do.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighborhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. Walking helps me feel at home.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “We want to make choices, and have some agency in getting lost, and getting found. We want to challenge the city, and decipher it, and flourish within its parameters.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “Slow down: it’s the only way to guarantee your immortality.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “We all have our own signals we’re listening for, or trying not to hear.”
Lauren Elkin Quote: “I walk because it confers- or restores- a feeling of placeness... I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours, but you can eavesdrop on them. Sometimes it’s overcrowded; sometimes the voices are too loud. But there is always companionship. You are not alone. You walk in the city side by side with the living and the dead.”
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