"The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes."

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Source : Ronald Sukenick (1975). “98.6: A Novel”, p.167, University of Alabama Press

Ronald Sukenick

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“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.”
“I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.”

Source : "Why women really should rule". Interview with Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2008.
“I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.”
“Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.”
“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.”
“His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.117, Random House
“People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.”
“If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.”

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