"In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be â€˜desertâ€™), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happenâ€¦"

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Reyner Banham

#Landscape Quotes #May Quotes #Desert Quotes

“One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.”
“Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not understand. Systems like theirs are only historical curiosities to the 20th century, unless they happen to claim to be appropriate descriptions of Reality. Anyone who believes in these antiquated fantasies stamps himself as ludicrous, posthumous, ineffective, and superfluous. No leading men of the coming decades will be Darwinians, Marxians or Freudians.”
“The right brain is finally being taken seriously.”
“When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.”
“One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.”
“At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.”
“Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know”
“When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen”

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