"Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful."

-- Philip Johnson

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“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”
“Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.”
“Christian life isnâ€™t a one-person race. Itâ€™s a relay. You are not alone; youâ€™re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.”
“In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferretâ€™s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
“William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.”
“When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.”
“It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.”
“God's path always delivers what He promises.”

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