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"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world." — Christiane Collage

Brendan Gill Quotes

Type: Critic | Date of Birth: 1914-10-04 | Year of Death: | Nationality: American

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

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

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

Parody is homage gone sour.
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 of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
Brendan Gill

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