"Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston."

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Philip Johnson

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“The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.”

Source : D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.47, Zondervan
“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”
“Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.”
“I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.”
“... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.”
“Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.”
“Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.”
“If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!”

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