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“Saturn Devouring His Son”,
“You would swear that it’s a depiction of Good versus Evil,” his mother used to say. “Look at the fury in David’s eyes, while Goliath’s expression is calm and sorrowful. Where is Good, where is Evil? Now there’s a question …”
“The tall are what they choose to be. The short are what they can be.”
AMERICAN PSYCHO
Lieberman’s City of the Dead is a masterpiece, but it’s not considered a classic. The opposite is true of Christie’s And Then There Were None. Now, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is both a masterpiece and a classic.”
Roseanna
“There are people who have a passion for the theatre. It is not unlike my own passion. But I cannot understand how people can take pleasure in the shoddy fictions, which are to real life as a tallow candle is to the sun. Being more jaded and more difficult to please than the public, I demand genuine comedies, actual tragedies. Society, that is my theatre. My actors laugh truly, or they weep genuine tears.”
