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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
Art
"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
Friendship
"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
Fashion
"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
Design
"I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school."
Fashion
"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."
Architecture
"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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