William H. Whyte Quotes
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
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I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
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Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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It was at a certain stage (you might have forgotten, haven't you?) that the United States actively collaborated with Saddam when he was at war with Iran: weapons were supplied, diplomatic and political support was provided and so on. Then the US fell out with him for some reason and decided to do away with him.
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
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The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
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I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.
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The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
