Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

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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 balm for the battered spirit.…
• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph…
• Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than…
• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,
• An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
• A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act…
• The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
• A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.

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