"The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city."

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Source : "If a City Were Perfect, What Would It Look Like?" by Roderick Conway Morris, www.nytimes.com. May 8, 2012.

Leon Battista Alberti

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“It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.”
“Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.”

Source : Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books
“Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.”
“One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.”

Source : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
“Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.”
“We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.”
“Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.”
“Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.”

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