"A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels."

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David Chipperfield

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“Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.”
“Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side.”
“Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com
“Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.”
“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”
“Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.”
“The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.”

Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”

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