"If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette."

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Source : "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

Timothy Levitch

#Catharsis Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Empires Quotes

“I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.”
“The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.”
“A whole bunch of people told me that if I went to WWE, I'd never make it. But it's like I never heard them. I never listened. To me, I'm exactly where I belong. I feel like I was born to do this. Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.”
“I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.”
“A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.”
“There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writing, with several Chinese books I couldn't get translated. That's when I decided to write in English, since I had been living here and had decided to reconstruct my life here. Even if I wrote in broken English, it was better than getting bored and weary and bitter on the long queue of authors waiting to be translated by a stranger.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.”
“A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.”

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