Quotations from

Brendan Gill

About

Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) was an American journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. Gill also contributed film criticism for Film Comment, wrote about design and architecture for Architectural Digest, and authored fifteen books, including a popular memoir about his time at The New Yorker.

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Quotes from Brendan Gill

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

—Brendan Gill