“I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly”
Peter Cook (1937–1995) British architect
“If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.”
Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.
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That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
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“But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.”
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