Rita Mae BrownOh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
About This Quote
In this quote, Joan Didion is saying that people have turned the beauty of cities into something ugly. In particular, she was referring to the oil slicks on the road. The idea of beauty has been taken from the cities and the cities have been taken from their beauty.
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