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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.


Maya Lin


#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.


Harold MacMillan


#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

La memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artilugio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#pasado #recuerdos #love

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.


Paddy Chayefsky


#bloodiest #day #first #generals #hell

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.


Richard Le Gallienne


#attraction #beauty #curious #drawn #evil

Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) I don't know how she did it. Fire She was shaking all over. It took her hours to put her make-up on. But she did it. Even the false eye-lashes. She ordered gin with triple limes. Then a limosine. Everyone knew she was the real heroine of Blonde on Blonde. oh it isn't fair oh it isn't fair how her ermine hair turned men around she was white on white so blonde on blonde and her long long legs how I used to beg to dance with her but I never had a chance with her oh it isn't fair how her ermine hair used to swing so nice used to cut the air how all the men used to dance with her I never got a chance with her though I really asked her down deep where you do really dream in the mind reading love I'd get inside her move and we'd turn around and she'd turn around and turn the head of everyone in town her shaking shaking glittering bones second blonde child after brian jones oh it isn't fair how I dreamed of her and she slept and she slept forever and I'll never dance with her no never she broke down like a baby like a baby girl like a lady with ermine hair oh it isn't fair and I'd like to see her rise again her white white bones with baby brian jones baby brian jones like blushing baby dolls


Patti Smith


#in-memoriam #poem #poetry #poetry-quotes #tribute

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.


Frank Knox


#belief #fire #living #patriotism #purpose

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.


Frank Lloyd Wright


#lincoln #memorial #related #wore

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.


Wangari Maathai


#because #been #came #cannot #curse

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.


Edgar Lee Masters


#erected #first #good #good work #laid






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