
2000s, 2008, First Speech As London Mayor (May 3, 2008)
TV recordings of stage shows, Svengali (2012), Svengali tour brochure
2000s, 2008, First Speech As London Mayor (May 3, 2008)
Huey Long on African American Education (Williams p. 524)
“My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other”
Letter to Elizabeth Otis, expressing dissatisfaction with L'Affaire Lettuceburg — a satire he abandoned in favor of work on what became The Grapes of Wrath (c. mid-May 1938) as quoted in Conversations with John Steinbeck (1988) edited by Thomas Fensch, p. 38
Context: You see this book is finished and it is a bad book and I must get rid of it. It can't be printed. It is bad because it isn't honest. Oh! the incidents all happened but — I'm not telling as much of the truth about them as I know. In satire you have to restrict the picture and I just can't do satire. I've written three books now that were dishonest because they were less than the best that I could do. One you never saw because I burned it the day I finished it. … My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other and then I deliberately write this book, the aim of which is to cause hatred through partial understanding. My father would have called it a smart-alec book. It was full of tricks to make people ridiculous. If I can't do better I have slipped badly. And that I won't admit — yet.
“I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.”
One-liners
C-Pop Star Jolin Tsai on LGBTQ+ Representation in Her Music: 'I Am Just Following My Heart', Billboard, 2017-6-28 https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/7849254/jolin-tsai-on-lgbtq-representation-in-her-music,
Of her relationship with Tim Burton
Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/03/1
“The fragrant hair,
Falling as through the silence falleth now
Dusk of the air.”
Tutto E Sciolto, p. 13
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza