"I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country."

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Source : Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

Peter Weiss

#Country Quotes #Spring Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.”

Source : "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.”
“Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.”
“When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.”
“If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.”
“Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.”
“Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.”
“Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.”

Source : "A life in writing: China Miéville" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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