"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.“
-Ernest Hemingway
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"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."
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"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
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"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
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"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
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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."
-Gustav Stickley
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