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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.

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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. As long as any adult thinks that he like the parents and teachers of old can become introspective invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him he is lost.
  • 2. I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
  • 3. I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going that is where you were going to be.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
  • 2. I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night we started talking and that's that.
  • 3. Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

3 Anger

  • 1. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
  • 2. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.
  • 3. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture in general is frozen music.
  • 2. I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
  • 3. I believe very strongly and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools but architecture talked about under history geography science technology art.
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