"My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none."

-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Comedy Quotes #Masters Quotes #Trade Quotes

“Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.”
“Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.”
“I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.”
“Weâ€™re not naked, weâ€™re skyclad!”
“By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.”
“I think situations are more important than plot and character.”

Source : "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.
“I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.”
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”

Source : Edmund Spenser, Abraham Stoll (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book Five”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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