More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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20 September
Invent the riposte, and attribute it to Jean Harlow, Joan Rivers, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, etc.*, as you see fit ! ;)#YouAreMakingUpYourOwnJokesNow - literally
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* Though unlikely, perhaps, that *all of them* worked on the gag ? Unless... : https://t.co/OL1fPtbVBe
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Attentiveness :
Might being attentive and seeking not to be inauthentic be - or seem to be - all that one needs do in life ? ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Bagels :
Toasted Bagels and a Bath at Noon would make an excellent title for one's memoirs ~ Serge Koussevitzky
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Discuss.
How would you answer differ, if you had :
1) Read Oblomov (1859), by Ivan Goncharov ? and / or
2) Been an author who had been compared to its titular head ?
Brinkmanship :
Brinkmanship simply has no meaning when everyone has now seen your hand (which they anyway knew had nothing in it) ~ Montaigne https://t.co/D3uAZUn8bF
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Charitable objects :
If ever the claimed good intentions behind the objects of a charitable institution come under sorry scrutiny, 'tis oddly most likely in the particulars of how it gainfully offers employment to those who are - or are entitled to be - its stated beneficiaries ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Cromer Delicacies
Cromer Delicacies [according to Mark Twain*] :
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Jellied adder's tail or marinaded Jersey-herd udder
* Allegedly.
Deceit :
Deceit is an unnecessary, but frequently present, part of political and public life ~ Thomas Hardy
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Employment and its so-called rights :
'Even with the sound off, the stench both of the finger-wagging and from the hideous assurance that comes from having so much capital that one can spout fantasies* makes me hasten to beckon the servant with the bucket and refreshing lemon-infused towel !' ~ Evelyn Waugh
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Friendship :
When it comes down to it, friends who sometimes prove to be an irritatant are one thing, essentially : irritating ~ Victor Hugo
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Insincerity :
The only thing that astounds me more than your lack of sincerity is your sincere and deep indifference to its easily being found out ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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Kissing :
If a person kisses a fish, the person may be happy, but the fish will not be ~ Voltaire
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Lives led well :
An examined life may still not be a life will led, but it has more chance of being so than one left unexamined ~ Henrik Ibsen
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London :
If one is but kind to London, see how it does, indeed, reciprocate ~ Samuel Johnson
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If you are called Jonson, it shouldn't be spelt Johnson ~ Ben Jonson
When a man is tired of London, he may use his One-Day Travelcard to go home again ~ Ben Jonson
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Love-apples :
Love-apples, Hodge ? They are but an riotous fruit ! ~ Samuel Johnson
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Low-achievers :
As LBJ privately told JFK, it's these kids who are low-achievers - objectively considering the advantages that they've already had in life - but think that they can sort out everyone else's lives who are the problem ~ Henry Miller
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Lunar eclipses :
The first demotic record, in English, of what appears to have been a lunar eclipse suggests that witnessing it may have given rise to some strange - not to say wildly transgressive - behaviour ! ~ G. K. Chestertonhttps://t.co/S3N84U2KMp
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Need :
A plain deal table - and, maybe, a plate of tepid tapioca - is all that any of us needs ~ Mark Twain pic.twitter.com/v56rbohGn8
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The Night Sky :
Although, despite the frost,
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The Night Sky was not
Crisply - not so sharply -
Defin'd, 'twas to me
Comfort to look - and see.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson#OneLovelyThingToDay
Parfums :
Oh, but I procure *all* mes parfums, my dear, through the caring offices of Boddle & Shrike - don't you ? ~ Oscar Wilde
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Parties :
Parties are, generally, to be endured, forgotten, or recalled unbidden, and with the accompanying cold sweat ~ Walter Matthau
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Penguins :
A plain penguin is no match for a fancy penguin, but a pretty penguin surpasses all ~ John Gielgud
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Poverty :
Poor people are just rich people who don't have any money ~ Mark Twain
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Set-backs :
Whatever set-backs there may have been, some will turn out to be blessings in disguise - and blessings are always worth being grateful for ! ~ Novalis
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Sex :
More than the question whether the sex act itself is ridiculous or demeaning is the matter of all the things that the sexes do to achieve, adulterate or avoid it ~ Joan Rivers
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I 'love' about the writing of Henry James that beyond the middle of The Golden Bowl, for example, one can be sure that the pair of leading characters *must have* had sexual relations, but, even by re-reading the likely chapter, one can never work out where ~ S. J. Perelman
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Shakespeare :
Even the much-maligned Compositor D (?) took more skill in setting the works of Shakespeare than he did in writing them ~ Frank Muir
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'Sporty' clothes :
When 'being sporty', it is essential to wear sporty clothes : if not, people may not think that you're serious about it, or, even worse, realize that that's what you're doing ~ Stephen Potter [a paraphrase]
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Standards in public life
The decline of standards in public life or politics is epitomized by this analogy : a fresh turd on a packed coach whose windows won't open, but with passengers who all seem to have lost their sense of smell ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
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Tchaikovsky :
As Rimsky once remarked, it may be that the best of Pyotr Ilyich's symphonic writing is not to be found in his Symphonies ~ Leonard Bernstein https://t.co/EAof8ySLSK
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Work :
Those infamous words are perhaps better understood as Machtfreie Arbeit : Power-free work ~ E. B. White
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Youth :
As Dostoyevsky maybe once said, what we might imagine to be the arrogance of youth is actually its insecurity :
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All too aware *that* it is, but - not yet (ever ?) knowing *why* it is - repeating the mistake of over-emphatically announcing its presence.https://t.co/Hmen3gyRfu
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
