"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."
-John Irving
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"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.“
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"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
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"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
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"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
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