"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which……" — Ada Louise Huxtable
"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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11 Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t…
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,…
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York…
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I…
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the…
— Aeschylus
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America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who…
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is…
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the…
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of…
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
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