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• "Rochester is for us, who don't know it at all, a city of any time or country, moonlight, filled with lovers hoving over piano-fortes a city of handsome streets wrapt in beautiful quiet and dreaming of the golden age." — Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells, 1872 on JStor.com

• "He left us five kids because he fell in love with an opera soprano Twenty years later I was doing experiments in Eastman Kodak, Rochester, and I found the old fellow. He had five more children." — Seize the Day Saul Bellow on Google Books

• "I dearly hope I'm never fated to live in Rochester." — America Day by Day Simone de Beauvoir on Google Books

• "In Rochester she hadn't known where the Medical Center was so she'd had to stop to ask directions several times, intimidated by so much traffic, intimidated by the size and complexity of the city in which she had never driven before and by the nightmare network of elevated expressways, on and off ramps, exit only lanes" — We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates

• "What Rochester did was commercialize American agriculture. Then, beginning in the 1880s, it commercialized photography." — American Journey Richard Reeves

• "'Rochester? Why Rochester?' 'Why not?'" — It's a Wonderful Life, phone conversation between George Bailey and Sam Wainwright

• "On the 26th of June, 1827, we strolled through the village of Rochester, under the guidance of a most obliging and intelligent friend, a native of this part of the country. Every thing in this bustling place appeared to be in motion. The very streets seemed to be starting up of their own accord, ready-made, and looking as fresh and new as if they had been turned out of the workmen's hands but an hour before..." — Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828 Capt. Basil Hall

• "Rochester is a cautious, quiet city." — An American Notebook Philip Hamburger

• "Rochester is a city of 'clean' industries — Eastman Kodak, Bausch & Lomb optical instruments, Taylor thermometers." — An American Notebook Philip Hamburger

• "The University of Rochester began life in an old hotel. The Eastman Kodak Co. had its beginning in a kitchen sink. And the Genesee River starts in a barnyard." — River Ramble Arch Merrill

• "The week that followed in Rochester was perhaps the most dismal week I have ever spent with a play There is something infinitely sad about a theatre with an audience of perhaps twenty or thirty disconsolate people scattered through its seats, and there is a touch of the sepulchral about actors booming out their lines into the vast reaches of an almost empty auditorium." — Act One Moss Hart
  

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