Peepholes Quotes

• How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!

  Guy Murchie

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

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• I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

  Djuna Barnes

  Eye, Giving, Criticism

  "The Songs of Synge : The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays". New York Morning Telegraph, February 18, 1917.

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• Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

  Yann Martel

  Views, Vastness, Tiny

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Glimpse, Causes

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

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• The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Night, Light

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Son, Men

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

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• I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.

  Danielle Dutton

  Wall, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, It certainly tastes like red. Yes, it is red, isn't it? Seems so. She buried her head in her hands. But couldn't it be just a bit more red?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doors, Hands, Color

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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