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My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. my first law is: when in doubt, ascribe all quotations to bernard shaw - which i don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. churchill, wilde, orson welles and alexander woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

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My Toils In The Quotation Field Have

Nigel Rees

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. my first law is: when in doubt, ascribe all quotations to bernard shaw - which i don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. churchill, wilde, orson welles and alexander woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, george bernard shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "to ----, with esteem, george bernard shaw." he immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "with renewed esteem, george bernard shaw.

Rees's first law of quotations: when in doubt, ascribe all quotations to george bernard shaw.

I wanted to meet orson welles. so i was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. i'm able to get cast in it, but orson welles worked alone. he worked before all of us worked. he didn't want to work with anyone else.

Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. do you know the story of shaw at the fabian society? h.g. welles said "i'm terribly sorry i've missed the last five meetings, i've been terribly busy, i'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and i've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and i've had a bit of personal trouble, and i had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." shaw leapt up and said, "i've not missed one meeting, and i have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. if it were easy they'd all be at it.

I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but i know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' bernard began to sing again. timidly, leigh-cheri joined in. between verses, they opened another bottle. the popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. of the three billion people on earth, only bernard and leigh-cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. only bernard and leigh-cheri passed out under the tablecloth.

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? these two figures existed, they exist no more. the sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. for me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

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