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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. It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.
  • 2. Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes – they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring regardless of your age.
  • 3. To own the dominant or only newspaper in a mid-sized American city was for many decades a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age however no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

2 Amazing

  • 1. James Franco has this interesting and relaxed look. It's pretty 'I don't care ' but it still looks good. Ryan Gosling also has amazing style. I take a lot of my fashion tips from those two. In my opinion they're the ones getting it right.
  • 2. It's amazing it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
  • 3. When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

3 Anger

  • 1. I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
  • 2. As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud the anger is elevated sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
  • 3. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
  • 2. My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
  • 3. Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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