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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. – Ernest Hemingway

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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Life
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Ernest Hemingway
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
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Ernest Hemingway
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway

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Corruption
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

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architecture

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde

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architecture

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. – Michael Graves

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architecture

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say its done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. – Maya Lin

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architecture

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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. – Peter Singer

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