Brendan Gill Quotes

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

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

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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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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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There's a lot of communication going on and that's why we're having a face-to-face meeting. We're not worried but we won't be satisfied until we have the (funding plan) approved.

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