- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decaying Quotes
On things that fall apart, and still hold beauty.
These quotes find something worth noticing in decay — Havana's buildings called 'decaying yet enchanting,' Chicago remembered for snow that turned dirty against its decaying brick. More in the Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.
- Enchanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies in the emerging field of cellular bioenergetics, a branch of biochemistry concerned with how energy flows through living systems, suggest that molecules from orchids might be able to repair decaying mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, in humans.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.
- Capital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020