Picture Parade, BBC (5 July 1960)
“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
Source: Terre des Hommes (1939), Ch. IX Barcelona and Madrid (1936)
Context: Human drama does not show itself on the surface of life. It is not played out in the visible world, but in the hearts of men. … One man in misery can disrupt the peace of a city. It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Between the Bridge and the River (2006)
The Technical Tools of Statistics. The American Statistician 34 (1). Online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2682374
“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
Source: Slam!
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands, Summer 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 319) p. 21
1880s, 1883
“I wasn't cut out for office life, I always wanted to be an actor.”
Peter Cushing Interview 1973 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048plh0 (1973)
“There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.”
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1920), ch. ix
