"The world is rather shot to pieces (end of World War II), 1945), but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. ..May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything (using his bed sheets as canvas"

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Source : "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.

Max Beckmann

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“As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.”

Source : "The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men". Book by Tom Crisp, 2007.
“First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.”
“O amazement of things-even the least particle!”
“Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.”

Source : City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.
“Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.”
“My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.”
“The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.”
“The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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