Paul Bailey famous quotes

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Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
-- Paul Bailey

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It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.
-- Paul Bailey

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Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.
-- Paul Bailey

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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.
The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Paul Bailey famous quotes

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