Quotes
Authors
Peter Weiss

"Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you"

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.81, A&C Black

Peter Weiss

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“It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.”
“My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard”
“I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.”
“I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters.”
“When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.”

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.”
“Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”
“The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.60, Ignatius Press

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