"There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them."

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Source : Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Hale

#Philosophical Quotes #Past Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.”
“I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.”
“Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.”
“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.”
“â€ŽWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
“At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 09, 2015
“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2011). “The Courting of Marcus Dupree”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Strangely enough, for me, Instagram has been a creatively freeing and inspiring format lately. I have been so very resistant to nearly all forms of media, yet finally this made it into my atmosphere, and in discovering this I have been propelled into some movement and new ideas. Real life images, curated images, even the visual diarrhea are incredible fertilization for movement in some direction or another.”

Source : "The Secrets of Guinevere Van Seenus". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2016.

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