"The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape"

--

Rem Koolhaas

#Cities Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.”
“Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.”
“I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”
“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.26, The Floating Press
“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“Grow some more weed and get medicated, everyday is a holiday so we celebrate it.”
“And itâ€™d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.”

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