#nothing

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#nothing #perhaps #politeness #soul #than

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#been #emotion #eradicated #last #nothing

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#art #building #dangerous #dealing #good

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#city #committee #committees #dealing #every

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#concept #fuzzy #image #nothing #sharp

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. ↗