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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation…
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
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The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set…
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,…
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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
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the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping…
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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and…
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures…
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I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people…
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The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This…
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