"After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead."

-- Tony Judt

#Opposites Quotes #People Quotes #Boundaries Quotes

“First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail”
“I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.”
“There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed,”
“I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love . . . but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them.”
“Being an artist is celebrating life.”
“Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.”
“I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.”

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