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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.”

Giving Eye Shapes Criticism Critics Access Treasure Hidden Treasure Peepholes

Author:Djuna Barnes

“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.”

Causes Eternal Experience Mere Complexes Ill Glimpse Rumble Peepholes

Book:The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

“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.”

People Littles Whole Stories Walks Magic Wall Projects Mirrors Covered Cabinets Countryside Lanterns Peepholes

Author:Danielle Dutton

“[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.”

Men Said Might Son Holy Angel Saint Martyr Pimp Holy Man Monterey Peepholes

Book:Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“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!”

Life Is Views Tiny Entry Vastness Peepholes

Book:Life of Pi - CANCELED

Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED

“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?”

Ends Hands Seems Bits Waiting Doors Fronts Color Taste Red Woods Noses Staring Buried Afternoon Front Doors Peepholes

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“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.”

Light Night Stars Behinds Sky Periods Paper All Things Carbon Night Sky Peepholes

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“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!”

Men World Looks Philosophy Stars Wonder Rich Modern Creation Perspective Skins Former Jewels Celestial Modern Science Peepholes

Author:Guy Murchie