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“If you could see three disparate indications of something new, and it didn’t matter if you saw it at a dinner party or on a bus, but if you saw three things that all pointed in one direction, you h...”
“The consumer wanted something new, but the stores were selling something old.”
“And I thought, oh, wouldn’t it be amazing, if you could combine the impulse and the marketing of what was new, and allow the consumer to just click and magically receive something on their doorstep?”
“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.”
“Find optimism in the inevitable.”
“I live in a Victorian apartment building in London.”
“The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now.”
“Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. (...) Its subtext is fuck context.”
“Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'hap...”
“We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away”
“It's very simple and it has nothing to do with identifiable goals. It is to keep thinking about what architecture can be, in whatever form. That is an answer, isn't it? I think that S,M,L,XL has on...”
“Noting that architecture can no longer keep up with the world: The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. Any architectural project we do tak...”
“Architecture has been a domain of architects, a discipline presumably dominated by immaculately dressed bookish pedants that have a stream of thought well displaced from regular human thought.- Rem...”
“When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her...”
“Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.”
“My belief is that recluse is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters.”
“I did not write those letters. This has been a hoax that I've had nothing to do with. I'm sorry it's gone on as long as it has.”
“Here's your quote: Thomas Pynchon loved this book, almost as much as he loves cameras! Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! ...”
“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneaker and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.”
“Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time,...”
