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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

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Alexander Jackson Davis
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
  • 2. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.
  • 3. What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

2 Amazing

  • 1. As a kid who wasn't into sports at school I felt almost alienated at times whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
  • 2. I love a beautiful gown on stage and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
  • 3. All of Koons's best art – the encased vacuum cleaners the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture) the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory – has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism idealism and fantasy.

3 Anger

  • 1. Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred there the childlike smile of serene humility.
  • 2. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.
  • 3. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect's task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.
  • 2. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
  • 3. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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