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“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”
― Less Than Angels
― Less Than Angels
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― Zero History
― Zero History
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
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“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”
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“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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