Brendan Gill Quotes

#1. I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

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#2. Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

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#3. Parody is homage gone sour.

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#4. The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

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#5. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

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#6. Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

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#7. We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

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#8. To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

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#9. It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

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#10. The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

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#11. If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

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