
Top 21 Peter Stamm Quotes
#1. When I really feel like dancing, I want someone who knows how to lead.
Peter Stamm
#2. If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.
Peter Stamm
#3. You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you. - Duncan to Madelyne.
Julie Garwood
#4. 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
#5. If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.
Peter Stamm
#6. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.
Peter Stamm
#8. A little wolf is present in every one of us.
Peter Stamm
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. I would like to outlaw contraception ... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
Joseph Scheidler
#16. 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
#17. Beautiful landscapes are no use for good paintings.
Peter Stamm
#18. To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery ...
Adrienne Rich
#19. 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
#20. If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.
Peter Stamm
#21. 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
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