❝ I like elements which are hybrid rather than “pure,” compromising rather than “clean,” distorted rather than “straightforward,” ambiguous rather than “articulated,” perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as “interesting,” conventional rather than “designed,” accommodating rather than excluding, redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equovical rather than direct and clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity. ❞
Robert Venturi (Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture)
❝ Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for i differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as i see myself, for i have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. ❞
❝ I feel too much. That’s what’s going on. Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways? My insides don’t match up with my outsides. Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up? I don’t know. I’m only me. Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside. But it’s worse for me. I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him. Probably. But it really is worse for me. ❞
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via heavyheartbeats)
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