"New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs."

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Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.91, Univ of California Press

Michel de Certeau

#Art Quotes #New York Quotes #Past Quotes

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
“After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.”
“There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.”
“He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King. In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)”
“I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.”
“Women are the twin halves of men.”
“Before I die, I want to fight for life.”

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