Peiper Letters Quotes

#1. To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style! PLACE-NAMES:

Marcel Proust

#2. Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.

Liam Gillick

#4. Sadly, she'd mistaken money for class...

Joanne Kennedy

#5. Well, suppose there's a slight doubt that the boy should be in the army and we send him and he gets killed."
"I see. Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you?"
"I don't want blame."
"Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.

John Steinbeck

#6. A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Ira Sachs

#7. I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

Martin Gore

#8. If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Laura Miller

#9. A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein