"What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live."

-- Jimenez Lai

#Other Cultures Quotes #Cities Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“A world ends when its metaphor has died.”
“A gentleman can live through anything.”
“Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.”
“The problem is that most people spend their lives looking... but not truly seeing.”
“I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.”
“Happiness dies when not shared”
“I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.”
“Be decisive and persevere. You have to recognize that, at the end of the day, no one really cares if you make another movie. That decision falls on you. You're the leader of your own destiny and the one person who can't walk away.”

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