"Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts."

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Source : Osbert Lancaster (1975). “A cartoon history of architecture”, Harvard Common Pr

Osbert Lancaster

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“What would I do without you?" "You'll never find out.”
“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”
“We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.”
“A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.”
“The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted.”
“Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.”
“The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it -- as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back”
“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.”

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