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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? Bernard Levin
Any form of art can only develop by means of single mutations by individual creators. If only traditional conventions are used an art will die, and the widening of an art form is bound to seem strange at first, and awkward. Any growing thing must go through awkward stages. The creator who is misunderstood because of his breach of convention may say to himself, 'I seem strange to you, but anyway I am alive. Carson McCullers
Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there’s a leaf or two it’ll be represented. Saul Bellow
Stepan Trofimovich managed to touch the deepest strings in his friend's heart and to call forth in him the first, still uncertain sensation of that age-old, sacred anguish which the chosen soul, having once tasted and known it, will never exchange for any cheap satisfaction. (There are lovers of this anguish who cherish it more than the most radical satisfaction, if that were even possible.) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jessica Hagedorn quote: "Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. Jessica Hagedorn
What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt. Gerald McRaney
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. Azar Nafisi
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. Gustave Flaubert
But in vain I set out to visit the city: forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her. Italo Calvino
Adrian Grenier quote: "I was rebellious."
I was rebellious. Adrian Grenier
You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of his love he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished himself on the cross for your sins. God’s justice and love are equally honored. And you, God’s creation, are forgiven. Max Lucado
Thomas Carlyle quote: "Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. Thomas Carlyle
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Steve Jobs
Antonia Fraser quote: "I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what..."
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. Antonia Fraser
Larry Bird quote: "What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world..."
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know? Larry Bird