"Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Ada Louise Huxtable

#Form Quotes #Collecting Quotes #Clutter Quotes

“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.”
“For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.”
“Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.”
“Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality”
“I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.”

Source : "Carrie-Anne Moss Is the One" by David Hochman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.”
“God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.”

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