"On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable signs. From that time on, I think, dates my obsession with flies. In times of peace, when we all lied still, I made sure to sneak close up to my mother, watching very carefully that no fly would land on her, - I waved my hat over her body, flies don't like wind and movement..."

-- Jeroen Brouwers

#Love Quotes #Dream Quotes #Mother Quotes

“He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.”
“I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.”
“In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.”
“Love is a peculiar thing.”

Source : "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1838.
“I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would ask her for her opinion. I used to like doing that because I would let my friends hear what I did, but they listened to it on another level. My mom listened to it with a different ear, because she's older.”
“Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.”
“The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.”
“Still humping the American Dream”

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