Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling. - Penelope Gilliatt
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
- Penelope Gilliatt
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the j… - Penelope Gilliatt
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the j…
Funniness is the wild card in the pack. - Penelope Gilliatt
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything po… - Penelope Gilliatt
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything po…
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. - Penelope Gilliatt
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life. - Penelope Gilliatt
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.
It [humor] inhabits the marginal. - Penelope Gilliatt
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
Great comedy calls large matters into question. - Penelope Gilliatt
Great comedy calls large matters into question.
[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable … - Penelope Gilliatt
[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable …
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