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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. ↗

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ↗

— Maya Lin

#longer #me #mind #mine #part

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. ↗

— Maya Lin

#individual #level #list #names #national

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ↗

— Maya Lin

#both #college #made #me #parents

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. ↗

— Maya Lin

#age #closer #some #teachers #than

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. ↗

— Maya Lin

#approach #definition #individual #individual lives #lives

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. ↗