Quotes with cathedrals

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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Janet Frame Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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