"I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying."

-- Tadao Ando

#Wall Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.”
“If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.”
“The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.”
“Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what differentiates a good director.”
“I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable”
“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.”

Source : William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.404, Vintage
“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”
“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.”

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