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«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
«To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.»
«Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.»
«Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.»
«An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.»
Author: Billy Wilder | About: Audiences | Keywords: imbecile, imbeciles
«Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.»
«When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger»
«What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.»