"Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds."

-- Le Corbusier

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“There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth!”
“In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman”
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
“In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history.”
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
“I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.”
“Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?”
“Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.”

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