The Taylor and the Painter often contribute to the Success of a Tragedy more than the Poet. Scenes affect ordinary Minds as much a...s Speeches; and our Actors are very sensible, that a well-dressed Play has sometimes brought them as full Audiences, as a well-written one.... But however the Show and Outside of the Tragedy may work upon the Vulgar, the more understanding Part of the Audience immediately see through it, and despise it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Haggerty: Girls! Girls! Girls! Be careful of my hats. Chorus Girl: Well, we gotta get down on the stage.... Haggerty: I don't care. I won't allow you to ruin them. Dressing Room Matron: See, I told you. They were too high and too wide. Haggerty: Well, Big Woman, I designed the costumes for the show, not the doors for the theater. Dressing Room Matron: I know that. If you had, they'd have been done in lavender.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, the world is not a stage not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not li...ttle theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches ... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles.--That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be.... Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience--let him read someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature takes shape and life in the body, in the wombs of the mother tongue: always: and the Fathers of Culture get anxious abo...ut paternity. They start talking about legitimacy. They steal the baby. They ensure by every means that the artist, the writer, is male. This involves intellectual abortion by centuries of women artists, infanticide of works by women writers, and a whole medical corps of sterilizing critics working to purify the Canon, to reduce the subject matter and style of literature to something Ernest Hemingway could have understood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In marble halls as white as milk, Lined with a skin as soft as silk,... Within a fountain crystal-clear, A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's one for the money, Two for the show,... Three to get ready, Now go, cat, go! But don't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes. You can do anything but lay off my Blue Suede Shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are so bewilderingly many laws in the Outside World. We of the circus know only one law--simple and unfailing. The Show must... go on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »