"The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius."

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Richard Neutra

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“I have to live my life, and it is the only one Iâ€™ll ever have.”
“I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.”
“Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.339, Vintage
“We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.”
“. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.”
“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
“How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.”

Source : Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE
“Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.”

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