Yi Fu Tuan Quotes

#1. It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

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#3. Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

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#4. Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

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#5. The good life . . . cannot be mere indulgence. It must contain a measure of grit and truth," observed geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Tuan

Eric Weiner

#6. Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

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#7. Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Frank Crowninshield

#8. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. You

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

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#10. Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Place is security, space is freedom.

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#12. All is fish that comth to net.

John Heywood

#13. All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.

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#14. Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Martin Amis

#15. McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

Charles McCabe

#16. Always ask for the truth. Just make sure the time is right.

Jessica Sorensen

#17. It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

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