"[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!"

-- Lotte Lenya

#Dream Quotes #Determination Quotes #War Quotes

“Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.”
“At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.”
“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide”
“Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.”
“I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.”
“I couldn't have done it without my players.”
“If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?”

Source : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan

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