Peter Stamm Quotes

#1. Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

Tad Williams

#2. Rita didn't mind. I knew she wouldn't. Hawk fascinated her. Among other things he was male, which gave him a running start

Robert B. Parker

#3. If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

Peter Stamm

#4. That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Peter Stamm

#5. To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery ...

Adrienne Rich

#6. Beautiful landscapes are no use for good paintings.

Peter Stamm

#7. Alice, it took big, dumb Talon Dodo thirty seconds to get you so pissed about a poker hand pun that you were about to beat him to death with your cane.

Elle Lothlorien

#8. I would like to outlaw contraception ... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Scheidler

#9. What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

Edward Snowden

#10. Nothing to fear but fear itself.

Michael Grant

#11. When I really feel like dancing, I want someone who knows how to lead.

Peter Stamm

#12. Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything.

Peter Stamm

#13. The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

Peter Stamm

#14. Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Miguel De Cervantes

#15. A little wolf is present in every one of us.

Peter Stamm

#16. Fear is the possibility of freedom.

Peter Stamm

#17. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.

Peter Stamm

#18. If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

Peter Stamm

#19. What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#20. You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you. - Duncan to Madelyne.

Julie Garwood

#21. If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

Peter Stamm