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.
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. - Brendan Gill
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.
- Brendan Gill
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. - Brendan Gill
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
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. - Brendan Gill
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.
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 in… - Brendan Gill
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 in…
Parody is homage gone sour. - Brendan Gill
Parody is homage gone sour.
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. - Brendan Gill
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.
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, m… - Brendan Gill
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, m…
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… - Brendan Gill
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…
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. - Brendan Gill
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
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