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Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
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If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
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We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.
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