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“Le commedie di Shaw sono il prezzo che paghiamo per le sue prefazioni. (da Ego”

James Agate

1935), annotazione del 10 marzo 1933

James Agate: Frasi in inglese

“I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.”

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James Agate

Ego 8 (1947), p. 255, November 25, 1945
Of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

“Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.”

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Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.

“The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.”

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James Agate

Ego 4, p. 149, December 18, 1939.

“Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.”

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James Agate

Ego 4 (1940), p. 139, November 13, 1939.

“The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.”

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Ego 7 (1945), p. 153, July 21, 1944.
On von Stauffenberg's bomb plot.

“The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”

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Ego 6, p. 199, June 26, 1943.

“I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.”

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Ego 6 (1944), p. 189, June 9, 1943.

“Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If he can't pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.”

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James Agate

Ego (1935), p. 247, October 14, 1932.

“A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.”

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James Agate

Ego, p. 303, September 17, 1933.

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