"Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine"

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Peter Weiss

#Paris Quotes #Bird Quotes #Singing Quotes

“It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.”
“I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain white dissolves were used that would try to emulate the look and feel of comic book panel borders. Sometimes they would frame shots in panels or circles that gave it a real comic book feel.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."”
“You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.”
“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“Just remember, Callum when youâ€™re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fallâ€™ - Lynette McGregor”
“I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.”
“You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.189, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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