"I died last night. Seventy years too young."

-- Colin Thompson

#Night Quotes #Years Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“There are perfectly good independent small nations.”
“What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.”
“I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.”

Source : "Grand Designs: The home truths of Kevin McCloud". Interview with Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. April 08, 2011.
“I despise shopping and department stores.”
“Politeness is practical Christianity.”
“I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.8, Macmillan
“War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.”
“Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.”

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