"My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work."

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Source : "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

Oscar Niemeyer

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“Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.”
“I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.”
“The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. Itâ€™s perceived as an accolade to be published as a â€˜literaryâ€™ writer, but, actually, itâ€™s pompous and itâ€™s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. Iâ€™d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.”

Source : "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.”
“I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.”
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.”

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