"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."

-- Raymond Queneau

#People Quotes #Iliad Quotes #Disorder Quotes

“I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.”
“Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.
“For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.”

Source : "A Stein Song" l. 5 (1896)
“Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.”
“I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.”
“Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.”
“There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”
“The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.”

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