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A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
James Howard Kunstler
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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.
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I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.
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America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.
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It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.
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We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
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I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.
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