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John Updike

"The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness."

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"The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness."

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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

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"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."

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"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

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"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

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"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."

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"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."

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"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
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"As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
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