"Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless"

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Zaha Hadid

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“I think I was making a Stephen Fearing record, and I mentioned to someone that the Tragically Hip were talking to me about working with them. The Canadians in the room couldn't believe it, as if the Beatles were getting back together again and asking me to produce them. I have to say, as an American, it's different; they're not exactly a national treasure here.”
“Things are strongest where they're broken.”

Source : Louise Penny (2011). “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.325, Macmillan
“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 598-600, Curiosities of Literature, Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity, 1922.
“I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.”
“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.”

Source : Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.7, Univ of California Press
“I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.”

Source : "Aunjanue Ellis: Risk Taker". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.”

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