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“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”
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“I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.”
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“Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.”
― Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
but by networking.”
― Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
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“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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A fan club honoring the hilarious but understated British author, Barbara Pym, who has been called a 20th century Jane Austen.
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Lydia’s 2025 Year in Books
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