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«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.»
Author: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(Architect)
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chair, Chippendale, Chippendales, easy chair, skyscraper, skyscrapers
«I'm about four skyscrapers behind.»
«A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dubiousness, facade, facing, lake, skyscraper, skyscrapers
«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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adventurous, although, appears, barn, barns, broad, broads, climbing, connections, creating, destroying, discovering, environment, erecting, erects, forms, gained, gaining, masteries, mastery, mountain, mountain climbing, Obstacles, points, skyscraper, skyscrapers, smaller, started, starting, theory, The Connection, the point, tiny, unexpected, view, views, wider
«The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
bellies, Carcassonne, citadel, citadels, City of New York, enormous, fringe, fringed, fringes, howling, magnificent, mob, rag, raging, rags, skyscraper, skyscrapers, The Citadel, The City, unshaven
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