"If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on."

-- Brian Boyd

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Attention Quotes

“A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2010.
“I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.”
“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
“Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
“To do so no more is the truest repentance.”
“One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.”

Source : Pierre Bayle, Pierre Des Maizeaux, Alexis Gaudin, Anthelme Tricaud (1736). “The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.671
“This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.”

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