"Things may never be the same again..."

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Peter Paphides

“She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.”
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
“I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.”
“Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.”
“Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.”
“Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.”
“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”

Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.142, SUNY Press
“I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.”

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