Not really a quote but this Groucho exchange always amused me:
Groucho: Not that I care but where is your husband?
Woman: Why, he's dead.
Groucho: I bet he's just using that as an excuse.
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'Fill up every f**cking second with music'. Silence is part of music also.
"Without love, beauty and danger it would almost be easy to live"
- Donna Tartt's Secret History.
"We all like to be loved or hated: it is a sign that we shall be remembered, that we did not 'not exist'. For this reason, many unable to create love have created hate. That too is remembered."
- The Aristos, John Fowles
"Words, what are they? One tear will say more than all of them."
- Lob der Tränen
Quote: roscoff @ June 5 2008, 11:48 AM BST'Fill up every f**cking second with music'. Silence is part of music also.
I don't think he necessarily prohibits silence. If you see silence as part of music then you could fill up every second with silence. Silence with a purpose. Dead space is different to a carefully chosen silence, dead space is letting the silence overcome you through inactiveness.
'Right, I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing' Basil Fawlty.
Quote: roscoff @ June 5 2008, 11:51 AM BST'Right, I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing' Basil Fawlty.
"What would happen if everyone thought the same?"
"Then I'd be crazy to think any differently."
Yossarian in Catch 22.
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...."
[Last words of General John Sedgwick, spoken whilst looking over the parapet at enemy lines, Battle of Spotsylvania, 1864]