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Brendan Gill
2 quotes
“In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skycrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniatures Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.”
Brendan Gill (1914–1997) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Brendan Gill (1914–1997) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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)