Visconti’s The Leopard is to movies what the first Velvet Underground record is to music: almost no one sat through it, but everyone who did became a director.
Feb 092023
Visconti’s The Leopard is to movies what the first Velvet Underground record is to music: almost no one sat through it, but everyone who did became a director.
The idiocy of the press is limited only by the number of favorable reviews it gives your book.
Stage plays, no matter how well done, always remain faintly ridiculous.
The management consultant, equal parts lawyer, courtier, and scapegoat, unites in himself the fees, and opprobrium, that accrue to each.
A cause to die for attracts the man with little to live for.
Where scarcity does not exist, it is invented.
A woman is apt to confuse a man’s reluctance to marry with his reluctance to marry her.
The royal road to wealth is not to make money but to capture it.
Ostracism, as the Greeks understood, is the cruelest punishment.
If many hold one view, at no cost to themselves, and a few hold the contrary, at grievous expense, which carries more weight?