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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist but if nowhere means that's where they are that's where I want to be.

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Category: Loneliness

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. Death comes not to the living soul nor age to the loving heart.
  • 2. I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
  • 3. I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father – he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression thought he could be a movie star. So go figure you know?
  • 2. Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
  • 3. Gary Ross is amazing. He's just – he always has a billion ideas of what he wants but has a very clear perspective also he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
  • 2. Hatred is settled anger.
  • 3. You will not be punished for your anger you will be punished by your anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 2. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
  • 2. The intellectual force of the West is still dominant but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning and that less will be based on our models.
  • 3. Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.
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