"In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

Amy Waldman

#Men Quotes #Space Quotes #Air Quotes

“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.”
“When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.”
“Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.”
“If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.
“Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.”
“I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.”
“I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.”

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