"I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up."

-- Greil Marcus

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“The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.”
“I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.”
“Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.”
“Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.”
“Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.”
“Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.”

Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1889*). “Sermons”
“I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?”
“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.”

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