It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
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…
[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.
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…
Funniness is the wild card in the pack. - Penelope Gilliatt
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. - Penelope Gilliatt
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
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.
[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 …
It [humor] inhabits the marginal. - Penelope Gilliatt
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