A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.Ada Louise Huxtable
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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