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


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#architecture #castle #clouds #rules

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.


Walter Benjamin


#architecture

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.


Lyall Watson


#dance #expression #architecture

Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.


Murong Xuecun


#freedom-of-speech #freedom

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.


Kamila Shamsie


#intimacy #karachi #love #pakistan #romance

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.


Jennifer Lanthier


#freedom-of-speech #journalism #prison #stamps #writing

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.


Jess C. Scott


#dog #dogs #friends #friendship #hachiko

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.


Toni Morrison


#common #freedom #god #loss #freedom

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.


Wilford Brimley


#athletes #bred #good #guess #horse

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.


Tina Louise


#away #be happy #between #child #could






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