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“As we go back in time, we can revisit unsuspected scenes of the narrative of our life and perceive forgotten details in the rear window of our mind, throwing new light on our instilled certainties and consolidated opinions.”

Mind Details Rear Window Revisit Stilling The Mind Consolidated Opinions Instilled Certainties

Book:Stilling our Mind

Source: Stilling our Mind

“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.”

People World Known Car College Anxiety Window University Native American Automobile Prompts Affiliation Colleges And Universities Rear Window

Book:Class

Source: Class

“Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.”

People Looks House Race Window Toms Peeping Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.”

People Knows World Way Looks Long Desire This World Long Time Window Stranger Rear Window

Author:Will Oldham

“Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.”

Killing Polite Rear Window

Author:Thelma Ritter

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

Ifs Men Long Wonder Watches Focus Crime Prove Ethics Window Commit Ethical Lenses Binoculars Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“I'm not much into rear window ethics.”

Ethics Window Rear Window

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.”

Knows Mercy Superhero Oasis Rear Window Mystery Men

Author:Mose Allison

“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”

Humans Race Trouble Window Human Race Human Intelligence Rear Window

Author:Thelma Ritter

“We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?”

People Looks Philosophy House Bits Race Ought Window Toms Peeping Rear Window

Author:Thelma Ritter

“Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.”

Knows Discipline Insult Superhero Insulting Rapture Insulted Oasis Rear Window Mystery Men

Author:Liam Gallagher

“Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away... I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in Dannemora.'”

“When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.”

Men Two Together Ought Couple Bottles Broadway Taxi Analyzing Rear Window

Author:Thelma Ritter

“Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.”

Men Writing Wells Doe Inspiration Song Months Inspiration To Write Parallelogram Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.”

Ideas Faces Used Window Rounds Wave Technique Cigarette Reflecting Lighting Lucy Interrogation Mascara Guantanamo Rear Window Interrogation Techniques

Author:J. K. Rowling

“... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.”

Heart Felt Car My Heart Window Finals Wave Tiny Dry Chests Juice Sponges Rear Window

Author:Karen Tayleur