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“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.” – Winston Churchill, in response. ZING!
Wish I’d Said That http://lauriekendrick.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/wish-id-said-that/ -
GK Chesterton to George Bernard Shaw: ‘To look at you, Shaw anyone would think there was a famine in England.’.
Shaw retorted, ‘To look at you, Chesterton, anyone would think you caused it”.
Wish I’d Said That: http://lauriekendrick.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/wish-id-said-that/ -
La Penseur by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1906 – George Bernard Shaw as you probably haven’t seen him before! Back to Rodin again…he gets everywhere.
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GBS
GBS: lovely in a suit and… 😉
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I’ve posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin’s Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), “Some Criticisms of the Exhibitions,” in Amateur Photographer (London, 16 Oct. 1902; repr. in Bernard Shaw on Photography, 1989).