typical quotes

Cambridge has always tried to be more typical and less exotic than the other place.

-Anonymous
  In The Listener,14  Aug.'The other place' has traditionally come to be used of Cambridge from an Oxford viewpoint and vice versa.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

- Djuna Barnes
  'Greenwich Village  As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.