Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life — Marcus Tulluis Cicero
No Guarantees
Category: Quotes
Drowning Ones Sorrows…
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim— Frida Kahlo
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. – Milton
How The Fight Ends
You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down — Mohamed Ali
William of Baskerville
Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. – William of Baskerville, The Name of The Rose
American Inferno
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love, but a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno – Italo Calvino
Rush Hour
Hurry, and you won’t arrive. – Chinese Proverb
The Informed
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers – Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Anvil
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind – A Tale of Two Cities
Angles And Lines
Meaning vs Experience – The whole idea of my architecture is about stopping any communication and placing within architecture itself a device that causes you to react emotionally, physically, and intellectually. Without representation. My architecture means nothing. But the experience is something else. – Peter Eisenman
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