Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill (4 October 1914 – 27 December 1997) wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine. Quotes In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skycrapersoften took the shape of domes, surmounted by jauntygilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,Alexandrian lighthouses, miniatures Parthenons. Thesecharming follies contained neither royal corpses noreffigies of gods and goddesses; rather they containedlarge wooden tanks filled with water. 1982, quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: New York's hidden rooftop world (1990) foreword, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 355 (2005) He stared the assorted meannesses and failed promises of American life straight in the face, and they stared back. 1990, On Walker Evan's photographs for James Agee's book on the destitute South. A New York Life, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 355 (2005) "not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious" See also The New Yorker Film Comment External links Category:1914 births Category:1997 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Journalists from Connecticut Category:Film critics from the United States Category:People from Hartford Category:Yale University alumni