If its reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.
Peter Stamm, All Days Are Night.
“Thats the thing with reality, he said, you cant repeat it to order, you cant correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.”
“Fear is the possibility of freedom.”
“If it’s reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.”
“That’s the thing with reality, he said, you can’t repeat it to order, you can’t correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.”
“There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stra...”
“Reality is how you look at it”
“Please." It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please dont say anything. Please dont look at me. Please dont hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.”
“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”
“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”
“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”
“I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.”
“Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's l...”
“Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.”