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Peter Corris quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.”
-- Peter Corris

Source : Peter Corris (1987). “The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10”, p.16, Allen & Unwin

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“Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.”
-- Peter Corris

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“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”
“Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.”

Source : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.
“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.”
“The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.”
“Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.”
“It is quite a three-pipe problem.”
“Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.”
“We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”
“In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.”
“I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass”

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