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Don’t be fooled by clever hands, sir” the Sunlight Man said. He’d be lying with the back of his head on his hands, as he always lay. “Entertainment’s all very well, but the world is serious. It’s exceedingly amusing, when you think about it: nothing in life is as startling or shocking or mysterious as a good magician’s trick. That’s what makes stagecraft deadly. Listen closely, friend. You see great marvels performed on the stage - the lady sawed in half, the fat man supported by empty air, the Hindu vanishing with the folding of a cloth - and the subtlest of poisons drifts into your brain: you think the earth dead because the sky is full of spirits, you think the hall drab because the stage is adazzle with dimestore gilt. So King Lear rages, and the audience grows meek, and tomorrow, in the gray of old groceries, the housewife will weep for Cordelia and despair for herself. They weren’t fools, those old sages who called all art the Devil’s work. It eats the soul.


John Gardner


#the-sunlight-dialogues #art

Nice tree," he says. That boy has unexpected depth.


Cynthia Hand


#tucker-avery #unexpected

Hasta la vista, baby," he tells me, and I shake my head and smile at how adorably dorky he can be. His Spanish only comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger.


Cynthia Hand


#tucker-avery #spanish

I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a bitch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it.


Ava Gardner


#forgiveness #god #humor #religion #sin

I did get so wigged out that I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I don't know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way, but it was the only thing I could think to do.


Cynthia Hand


#clara-gardner #humor #tucker #tucker-avery #humor

Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.


Ava Gardner


#fighting #frank-sinatra #humor #police #humor

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.


Ava Gardner


#brothels #disappointment #humor #humor

Tucker snorts. "Sage is a fighter, it spreads over the land like wildfire, sucking up all the water, the nutrients in the earth, until everything else dies. It's a heart little plant, that I'll give it. But it's gray and ugly and ticks love to hide in it. You ever seen a tick?" He glances over at me. The look on my face must be pretty appalled because suddenly he gives and uncomfortable cough and says quietly, "Sage does have a nice smell.


Cynthia Hand


#tucker-avery #love

He will always be my Sir Galahad.


Ava Gardner


#clark-gable #friendship #friendship

Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.


Ava Gardner


#critics #humor #humor