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The counties of New Zealand were the administrative divisions representing the country's rural areas, existing from the abolition of the provinces in 1876 until the major local government reforms of 1989. They were governed by county councils and existed alongside the country's boroughs, town districts, and other administrative divisions.
“It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
“This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses.”
“Why stay in Chicago; what did the town have to justify its existence? One decent boulevard, one decent suburb to the north, priced for the rich, two universities and a lake. As for the rest, endless miles of depressing, dirty streets. The town was one big stockyard.”
“I don't know what hell is but it ain't worse than Chicago.”
“I have struck a city — a real city — and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.”
“I tried not to make judgments. These people were doing something important, all of them. They were testing ways whereby people didn’t have to live in Chicago. That was a wonder to me. I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.”
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