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John Updike

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

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Donna Grant

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

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Donna Grant

"I call architecture frozen music."

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Donna Grant

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

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Donna Grant

"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."

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Donna Grant

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

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Donna Grant

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

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Donna Grant

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

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Donna Grant

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

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Donna Grant

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

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Donna Grant

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

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John Updike
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

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John Updike
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."

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John Updike
"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."

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John Updike
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

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John Updike
"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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John Updike
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

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John Updike
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

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John Updike
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

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John Updike
"Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works."

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John Updike
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

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