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“In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.”

Book:The High Way and the City

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The High Way and the City

This book delves into the intricate dynamics of urbanization and its impact on the environment, offering a critical examination of the interplay between the built city and the natural world. more

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Lewis Mumford

Historian and urban planner, known for his influential work on city planning and design, including the seminal work 'The City in History'. more

“Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.”

Mean Art Different Purpose Order Produce Art Is Consequence Transformation Relate Internals Works Of Art Meaning Of Art

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.”

Age Cities Building Access Vehicle

Book:The High Way and the City

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“Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.”

Men Said Ideas Might Spirit Felt Creative Massachusetts Creative Spirit Hawthorne

Book:Henry D. Thoreau

Source: Henry D. Thoreau

“The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.”

Ifs Made Seems Individual Secret Talent Achievement Findings Happenings Gossip Links Discovering Biographies Irrelevant

Author:Leon Edel

“The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.”

Writing Self House Subjects Concepts Fades Biographers Self Concept

Author:Leon Edel

“Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.”

Knows Should Next Middle Century Poet 20th Century

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.”

Views Novel Female Point Of View Austen

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.”

Writing Seems Nice Committed Surface Very Nice

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.”

Knows Wanted Teacher Students Great Teacher

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?”

Knows Needs Stories Hands Happens Sound Interesting Know How Happened Critics Magazines Suits Reviews

Author:Leslie Fiedler

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