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Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes about Waiting

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Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

Ada Louise Huxtable
People, Waiting, Special
Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

Ada Louise Huxtable
People, Waiting, Purpose
Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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