#tin

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#his #into #inviting #letters #life

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#distasteful #me #money #people #speak

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#away #believe #best #continued #expectations

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#challenge #doctor #get #heard #i

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#architecture #art #autonomy #because #cannot

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

#distinctive #does #done #every #every man