David Webb Peoples

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    The Schofield Kid: It don’t seem real, how he ain’t gonna never breathe again, ever. How he’s dead, and the other one, too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
    Will Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett)

    Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Is this testing whether I’m a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
    —David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Rachel, Blade Runner, being tested to determine if she is human or machine (1982)

    History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
    But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)