"While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see."

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Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

Jane Jacobs

#Thinking Quotes #Might Quotes #Wells Quotes

“It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.”

Source : James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”
“Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.”
“Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.”

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.42, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017
“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
“Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.”
“Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.”
“I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.”

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