J. Bowyer Bell quotes

“If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.”
-- J. Bowyer Bell

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“The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.”
-- J. Bowyer Bell

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“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”

“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”

“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”

“It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking for something more. You take in too much; perhaps it becomes total chaos. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.”

“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.”

“Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.”

Source : "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.”

“Prohibition has made nothing but trouble”

“The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.”