27 Quotes About Pittsburgh

  • Author Steven Brust
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    Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.

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  • Author Dave Newman
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    You can be anything in Pittsburgh, a stripper, a writer, a student, a bartender, or something else, or everything else, all of it at once, and no one cares, or if they care, they mean it, it's love. In Pittsburgh, you are tough or you are not. You write or you don't write. You start hearts or allow hearts to wind down like old clocks. I almost never think about what Pittsburgh means because I know it.

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  • Author Michael Chabon
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    I thought I smelled an early hint of the mysterious bittersweet gas that fills Pittsburgh in the summertime, a smell at once industrial and aboriginal, river water and sulfur dioxide, burning tires and the coat of a fox.

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  • Author Daniel Briere
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    It's just the same. It's just not going away. It's not improving. It hasn't been worse than it was since the Pittsburgh game, but it's not getting better, either, so that's the frustrating side.

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  • Author Jerome Bettis
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    It's the same type of town that Pittsburgh is, Midwest, blue-collar. And we've had some wins recently in domes.

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  • Author Jim Boeheim
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    They're just too strong for us right now, ... Pittsburgh is a veteran team. I thought they were underrated all along.

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