"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."

-- Rem Koolhaas

#Independent Quotes #Shopping Quotes #Articulation Quotes

“I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.”
“You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.”
“Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.”
“Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.”

Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp
“The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.”

Source : Chris Pavone (2012). “The Expats: A Novel”, p.114, Broadway Books
“I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.”
“The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”
“In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.”

Source : "Mind the Gap" by Ferdinand Mount, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2004.

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