"New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1976). “Kicked a building lately?”, Crown

Ada Louise Huxtable

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“A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press
“God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.”
“I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.”
“My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.”
“I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.”
“I have need to busy my heart with quietude.”

Source : Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.58, Delphi Classics
“I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what does the Shari'a say?" And he said, "Well, of course it doesn't justify suicide bombs," but he didn't seem to know where the Shari'a came from or what it was all about. The more I asked people in my family as well as friends, the more I realized that there seemed to be widespread ignorance in the Muslim community. And that's something which I actually found to be the case over the next two and a half, three years I spent writing the book.”

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