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Talk:Anthony Burgess

Hello there. I would like to open thus Wikipedia discussion forum. Ok, there are other sites in which to voice one's views about the great Mr Burgess (most notably anthonyburgess.com) but why not spead the load and enjoy textual conversation in here as well.

Opening Question: What are your thoughts about the recently published biography of Burgess by Roger Lewis? [Gareth Stuart Farmer]

 * I've not read this work, but I must point out that Wikiquote is not set up to be a discussion forum about anyone. Discussions about the veracity, value, and organization of the quotations that are used is the primary purpose of these talk pages. Links to other interesting sites for further information and discussion, like the one you pointed out, can also be appropriate, here or on the article page. I have just added it and a few others to the External links section there. ~ Achilles 17:45, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sources for quotations
Beginning with the section entitled People, we have no sources provided for any of Burgess' quotes. These quotations, unless verified, ought to be placed in an Unsourced section. The preceding quotes from the books would be placed under a section entitled Sourced. Grouping quotes by subject or theme is an attractive idea, but it should only be done if the sources are given as well. - InvisibleSun 16:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

How about a seperate page for Lewis?
We don't want his beefshit lies to smear the Burgess page, now do we? --62.255.236.92 02:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion
- InvisibleSun 23:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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Tommy Douglas

Thomas Clement Douglas PC MP CC SOM MA LL.D (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish Canadian politician who served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His cabinet was the first democratic socialist government in North America and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program. Douglas was voted "The Greatest Canadian" of all time in a nationally televised contest organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2004.

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 * The speech from the throne speaks about maintaining peace - peace today, when Canadian nickel is being indirectly shipped to Ethiopia. Peace today, when Italian aeroplanes are being flown with British oil! Peace! Mr. Speaker, if this be peace it must be like the peace of the Lord - it passeth all understanding.
 * Maiden speech, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.

 * I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.
 * Maiden speech, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.

 * Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?
 * Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

 * At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.
 * Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

 * I suggest that the hon. gentleman may be a good corporation lawyer, but he is slipping badly in his history. The capitalist system did not produce the machine age; the machine age produced the capitalist system. The material prosperity that the world has enjoyed for the last seventy-five years or one hundred years has been due to the introduction of power; steam power, then electric power and the internal combustion engine. The capitalist system or the free enterprise system - the terms are synonymous and interchangeable - was the product of the power age. The capitalist system did not produce the power age.
 * Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

 * What is this free enterprise system? It is the law of the jungle applied to economics. It is the law of every man for himself, as the elephant said when he was dancing among the chickens. That is not a bad philosophy if, like the hon. member for York - Sunbury, you happen to be in the elephant class, but it is likely to be depressing if you are a farmer or worker, and belong in the chicken group. Free enterprise means unrestricted competition; the race to the swift and the battle to the strong; nature red in tooth and claw.
 * Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

 * When the war came we were shocked to find, as Mr. Thorson, the then Minister of National War Services said, that forty-six per cent of the men called were rejected because that depression had left physical and psychological scars which will never be erased from that generation.
 * Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

 * We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.
 * Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

 * We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.
 * Budget Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

 * Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat
 * Budget Debate, Saskatchewan Legislature, March 18, 1947.

 *  I am still a little fellow. Mr. Tucker is big enough to swallow me, but if he did, he would be the strangest man in the world. He would have more brains in his stomach than he does in his head.
 * To Liberal leader of the time Walter Tucker, quoted "Star Phoenix" July 14 1947.

 * 'My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.' To his daughter Shirley Douglas, 1951

 * The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.
 * Address, Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, Saskatoon, March 13, 1951.

 * The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.
 * Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF, Regina, July 1951.

 * We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.
 * Address, Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.

 * Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.
 * Speech, Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.

 * "My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea." - Tommy Douglas 1961.
 * Mes amis, surveillez bien les petites gens qui ont des idées.

 * I felt something like the man on the resurrection morning who was reading his own tombstone and said either someone is an awful liar or I'm in the wrong hole.
 * August 3,1961, NDP Leadership Convention.

 * In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.
 * In response to Canadians policy on the Vietnam War, House of Commons, "Debates", 13 February 1967.

 * I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans"
 * Ottawa Journal, 5 October 1969.

 * We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.
 * April 21, 1971, NDP National Convention, Ottawa, Ontario.

 * To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.
 * Speech delivered at Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973.

 *  I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, and people asked us if it was true we were going to take their farms, like the Soviets in Russia, and did we believe in God.
 * On his earliest political campaigning, quoted in Tommy Douglas (1983) by Doris French Shackleton, p. 68.

 * Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
 * as quoted in Straight Through the Heart: How the Liberals Abandoned the Just Society (Harper and Collins: 1995), p. 243.

 * It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats. Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are. Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much physical effort. All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats. Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever. And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat. You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice. Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea!
 * http://www.cbc.ca/player/Digital+Archives/Politics/Parties+and+Leaders/Tommy+Douglas/ID/1409090169/?sort=MostPopular

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Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is a British philosopher, historian, and writer.

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 * I invented something called The Oxford Muse. The Muses were women in mythology. They did not teach or require to be worshipped, but they were a source of inspiration. They taught you how to cultivate your emotions through the different arts in order to reach a higher plane. What is lacking now, I believe, is somewhere you can get that stimulation not information, but stimulation where you can meet just that person, or find just that situation, which will give you the idea of invention, of carrying out some project which interests you, and show how it can become a project of interest to other people.
 * About The Oxford Muse Foundation in an article at The Gurteen Knowledge Website

 * The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
 * "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher" in History Today (July 1999)

An Intimate History of Humanity (1994)

 * The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

 * The temptation before 1933 was to believe in Hitler as a savior, to believe in a national rebirth. The path to National Socialism led through a wasteland of personal fears, collective anxiety, and resentments. The temptation was to surrender oneself to a dictator, to believe in a miracle. Hitler evoked human will and divine providence. The religious-mystical element in National Socialism was uncannily appealing to unpolitical people, to unrealistic people at odds with their world and accustomed perhaps to the dream of heroic irrationalism. The temptation was to abandon oneself to national delirium— despite (or even because of) the threat of violence.

 * Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not "melt the hearts" of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to think that he was changing the course of history, and that his righteousness would last "as long as the sun and the moon."

 * It takes a long time for people to recognize their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves.

 * '''No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.
 * This quote seems to obviously refer to Helen Adams Keller, but why she is referred to as "Mary Helen Keller" is not clear.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German (Bavarian) composer of classical music and conductor. His music has always been popular: both in the concert hall and on recordings. He is perhaps best known nowadays for his Operas, of which Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos are the most frequently performed. He was also a composer of symphonic works such as Thus Spake Zarathustra and A Hero's Life. He wrote many songs for solo voice with piano or orchestra, including Four Last Songs, Tomorrow! and Rest, my soul!. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates at the Universities of Heidelberg (1903) and Oxford (1913) and awarded the French Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur Croix de Chevalier (1907) and Officier (1913). He conducted throughout his adult life, and made many recordings of his own compositions from 1918 to 1947. His last public concert was on 19 October 1947 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he conducted the Philharmonia orchestra in a program of his works. His music has inspired many composers, including Béla Bartók, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten and also Hollywood composers such as Max Steiner and John Williams. His best known music is the opening to Thus Spake Zarathustra, which became one of best known pieces of film music when Stanley Kubrick used it in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Recollections and Reflections
Most quotes come from from material gathered together in Richard Strauss, Recollections and Reflections, Willy Schuh (editor), Boosey and Hawkes, English Translation L. J. Lawrence, London, 1953. German original, 1949, Atlantis-Verlag, Zurich.

 * If my works are good and of any importance for the further development of our art, they will maintain their position in spite of all opposition on the part of critics, and in spite of all denigration of my artistic intentions. If they are worthtless, not even the most gratifying box office success or the most enthusiastic acclamation of augurs will keep them alive. Let the pulping press devour them...I shall not shed a tear over their grave.
 * On Criticism (page 21-2) (1908).

 * I am convinced that the decisive factor in dramatic effect will be a smaller orchestra, which does not drown out the human voice as does a large orchestra…The orchestra of the opera of the future is the chamber orchestra which, by painting in the background of the action on the stage with crystalline clearness, can alone realise precisely the intention of the composer with regard to the vocal parts. It is after all an important desideratum that the audience should not only hear the sounds but should also be able to follow the words closely.
 * On composing and conducting (page 39-40) (1929).

 * Producers of opera nowadays usually make the mistake of translating each particular orchestral phrase into terms of a movement on the stage. In this matter one should proceed with a maximum of caution and good taste. There is no objection to bringing life to into the production by changes of position and new nuances of acting during repetitive passages of music, especially in arias. Preludes of one or two bars frequently, and especially in Mozart, clearly express some gesture on stage. But each trill on the flute does not represent a wink on the prima donna, nor every delayed chord on the strings a step or gesture. Whole passages, especially in the finales, are pure concert music and are best left undisturbed by “play acting”.
 * Conducting is, after all, a difficult business – one has to be seventy years of age to realise this fully!
 * The left hand has nothing to do with conducting. Its proper place is the waistcoat pocket from which it should only emerge to restrain or make some minor gesture for which in any case a scarcely perceptible glance should suffice.
 * It is better to conduct with the ear instead of with the arm: the rest follows automatically.
 * On conducting classical masterpieces. (p44-56).

 * Ten Golden Rules (for the album of a young conductor)
 * 1. Remember you are making music not to amuse yourself but to delight the audience.
 * 2. You should not perspire when conducting: only the audience should get warm.
 * 3. Conduct 'Salome' and 'Elektra' as if they were by Mendelssohn: fairy music.
 * 4. Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.
 * 5. But never let the horns and woodwind out of your sight: if you can hear them at all they are still too strong.
 * 6. If you think that the brass is not blowing hard enough, tone it down another shade or two.
 * 7. It is not enough that you yourself can hear every word the soloist sings - you know it off by heart anyway: the audience must be able to follow without effort. If they do not understand the words they will go to sleep.
 * 8. Always accompany a singer in such a way that he can sing without effort.
 * 9. When you think you have reached the limits of prestissimo, go twice as fast. (1948 Today, I should like to ammend this as follows: Go twice as slowly - addressed to conductors of Mozart).
 * 10. If you follow these rules carefully you will, with your fine gifts and great accomplishments, always be the darling of your listeners.
 * page38. Originally published 1922.
 * Rule 4 is often misquoted as: Never look at the Trombones, you'll only encourage them.

 * When during my stay in Egypt I became familiar with the works of Nietzsche, whose polemic against christianity was particularly to my liking, the antipathy which I had always felt against a religion which relieves the faithful of responsibility for their actions (by means of confession) was confirmed and strengthened.
 * Recollections of my youth and years of apprenticeship, page 140. In November 1892, Strauss had set off for an eight month journey to Greece and Egypt for convalesence from a severe lung ailment.

 * Melody as revealed in the greatest works of our classics is one of the most noble gifts which an invisible deity has bestowed on mankind.
 * Mozart's melodies, Beethoven's symphonies, Schubert's songs, acts two and three of Tristan are symbols in which are revealed the most profound spiritual truths. They are not "invented", but are "given in their dreams"to those privileged to receive them. Whence they come no one knows, not even their creator, the unconscious mouthpiece of the demiurge.
 * The melodic idea which suddenly falls upon me out of the blue appears in the imagination immediately, unconsciously, uninfluenced by reason. It is the greatest gift of the divinity and cannot be compared with anything else.
 * On Inspiration in Music, pages 112-117 (originally written around 1903).

 * Of all god-gifted dispensers of joy, Johann Strauss is to me the most endearing. I willingly admit to having sometimes conducted the Perpetuum Mobile with far more pleasure than many a four movement symphony.
 * As for the Rosenkavalier waltzes...how could I have done those without a thought of the laughing genius of Vienna?
 * On Johann Strauss, page 77. Originally written in 1925.

 * In my opinion, Gustav Mahler's work is one of the most important and interesting products in the history of modern creative arts.
 * Gustav Mahler, page 78. Originally written for a volume dedicated to Mahler edited by Paul Stephan, Munich 1910.

Other sources

 * My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.
 * written on the sketches for his Domestic Symphony. Charles Youmans, Mahler and Strauss in Dialogue, Indiana University press (2016), found on page 60.
 * Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set a menu to music.
 * I am not one to compose long melodies as did Mozart. I can’t get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don’t think there’s anybody today who can match me in that.
 * Quotes from Stefan Zweigs's posthumous memoire, The World of Yesterday. Zweig worked with Strauss closely on the opera The Silent Woman in the period 1931-1934 and got to know him well.
 * Why don't people see what is new in my work, how in them, as is found only in Beethoven, the human being visibly plays a part in the work.
 * 19th June 1949, in Willi Schuh, Strauss the early years, 1982, Cambridge University Press, page xiii.
 * Thirty years ago I was regarded as a rebel, but to-day, as you see, I have lived to find myself a classic.
 * 1931. Quoted by William Leon Smyser in his article The Caliph of Vienna: Dr. Richard Strauss, Musician. Published in Music & Letters, Jan., 1931, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1931), pp. 46-53. Published by: Oxford University Press
 * I hope, most revered Maestro, that these metronome markings, in my opinion wholly unneeded by you, are specific enough. Where they do not fit with your conception, I implore you urgently just to ignore them.
 * Letter to Hans Von Bulow, 15th January 1890, in Schuh and Trenner, Hans von Bulow and Richard Strauss: Correspondence, in English Boosey and Hawkes 1955. Von Bulow had asked for metronome markings from Strauss for Don Juan. [Italics Strauss]

 * It is clear to me that the German nation will achieve new creative energy only by liberating itself from Christianity
 * Diary entry, shortly after the death of Gustav Mahler (1911). Quoted in Oxford University Press, Grove music online: Strauss, Richard, §7: Instrumental works (written by Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans).

 * Very fine, but why do you put so many wrong notes in? Basically, it is all built on simple triads.
 * More like a sacrilege du printemps.
 * The first quote was made to Stravinsky after he had shown Strauss some of his works in Paris, 1914. The second quote an overheard joke of Strauss later reported to Stravinsky. Found in Kurt Wilhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait. Thames and Hudson, London, 1898. (Translated from original 1984 German edition by Mary Whittard), page 142.

 * Declarations about war and politics are not fitting for an artist, who must give his attention to his creations and his works.
 * Quotation made in an article published in 1914. Strauss had refused to sign the Manifesto of German artists and intellectuals supporting the German role in the war. Other signatories included Strauss' friends and colleagues, such as Max Reinhardt, Richard Dehmel, Max Liebermann, Engelbert Humperdink and Felix Wiengartner. The original article quoting Strauss was by Richard Specht, and is quoted by Romain Rolland in his diary entry, found on page 160 of Richard Strauss and Romain Rolland, edited by Rollo Myers, Calder and boyars, London, 1989.

 * Man (in B major) asks: When? When? Nature, (in C Major) answers from the depths Never, never, never will the weather improve".
 * Whilst composing Also Sprach Zarthustra, Strauss made this joke about the Bavaria weather to his friend, the conductor Max von Schillings. Quoted in Kurt Wilhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait, page 73.

 * Long live the politico-satrical-parodistic opera!
 * Letter to Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, 5 June 1916. They had been discussing the new first act of Ariadne auf Naxos. A Working Friendhip: The correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hoffmanstahl, Vienna House, New York (1961). Page 251.

 * It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.
 * Strauss told me about his new ballet, which he wrote in the summer. It’s called ‘Schlagobers’ (whipped cream) and he said, jokingly: ‘Oh yes, when one gets old one has ideas like that.’
 * In America with Richard Strauss. Elisabeth Schumann’s Travel Diary (14th October to 31st December 1921). Elisabeth Schumann was a soprano who worked with Strauss in the 1920s and 1930s. He dedicated his Brentano Lieder to her.

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 * Please start from the Bruch violin concerto again!
 * Whilst rehearsing the Alpine Symphony, referring to the theme in which he quotes and extends the theme from the slow movement of the violin concerto by Max Bruch. The quote is reported in Kurt Wilhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait. Thames and Hudson, London, 1989, page 40. The theme's major appearence is in C major just after rehearsal mark 80 ("At the summit"), played by horns in unison:

 * I ask myself why I have actually survived once more and been called back to life.
 * In late fall of 1948, Willi Schuh visited Strauss after an operation at a Clinic in Lausanne. This was a comment made by Strauss. From It will be alright on the night: Richard Streauss through quotes and anecdotes. Ed Alexander Witeschnick, Neff Press, Vienna (1983), page 187.

Quotes about Strauss

 * I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!
 * Arnold Schoenberg (1923) in Style and Idea: Selected writings of Arnold Schoenberg, edited by Leonard Stein, University of California Press (Berkeley) 1984, page 137.

 * I believe that he (Strauss) will remain one of the characteristic and outstanding figures in musical history. Works like Salome, Elektra and Intermezzo, and others will not perish.
 * Arnold Schoenberg (1946) in A Scheonberg reader - Documents of a life, edited by Joseph Auner, Yale University Press 2003, page 316-17.

 * I would like to admit all Strauss operas to whichever purgatory punishes triumphant banality. Their musical substance is cheap and poor; it cannot interest a musician today.
 * I watched him at rehearsals and admired the way he conducted. Every corrective remark he made was exact: his ears and his musicianship were impregnable.
 * Richard Strauss? An old Oyster!
 * Igor Stravinsky (1959) in Conversations with Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, New York, Double Day, 1959. Page 83-4. In the second quote Stravinsky recalling rehearsals he had attended for the premier of Strauss's ballet Josephs legende in Paris 1913. Third quote It will be all right on the night: Richard Strauss in quotes and anecdotes, ed. Alexader Witeschnik (1983), page 193.

 * Richard Strauss is a brilliant pig - I can find no other word for it. The whole thing is larded with illogical, unnecessary and hideous discord.
 * Alma Mahler (1901), after attending a performance of Strauss's orchestral piece, the symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben, in Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902. Edited by Antony Beaumont, Faber and Faber, London 1997. Page 367.

 * No other composer equals Strauss in his power of writing long stretches of music that interests us in and for itself, at the same time that every line and colour in it seems to express some new trait of the individual who is being sketched.
 * Ernest Newman (1908), in his study Richard Strauss, John Lane: The Bodley head, London and New York, 1908. page 67.

 * Salome again made an extraordinary impression on me. It is entirely a work of genius, very powerful and decidedly one of the most important things that our age has produced.
 * I labour on with countless rehearsals. He makes do with just a few, and it always sounds right.
 * Gustav Mahler. The first quote in a letter to Alma Mahler, quoted in Kurt Willhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait (1989), page 106. The second, comparing their conducting, quoted on page 105.

 * I simply must tell you of the thrilling impression the work (Salome) made on me when I read through it recently. Every note is spot on! Your vocation is to be dramatist. Through your music you have made me understand for the first time what Wilde's work is about
 * Letter of Gustav Mahler to Strauss, 11 October 1905. Gustav Mahler Richard Strauss - correspondence 1888-1911, edited by Herta Blaukopf (translated by Edmund Jephcott), Faber and Faber 1984.

 * You are really the only one of all my colleagues who takes any notice of my works.
 * Letter of Gustav Mahler to Strauss, 8 June 1895. Quoted in Kurt Willhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait (1989), page 105. Strauss had arranged for and conducted performances of the first two of Mahler's Symphonies. He went on to conduct all of the first five before Mahler's death in 1911.

 * Richard Strauss is at the same time a poet and a musician.
 * While conducting an orchestra he breaks into a frantic dance which follows the slightest details of his quivering music like clear water into which a stone has just fallen.
 * Romain Roland, French musicologist and author. First quote in an article on Richard Strauss, published on 15 June 1899 in the Revue de Paris. the article is translated and contained in Rollo Myers (editor), Richard Strauss and Romain Rolland, Calder and Boyars, London, 1968, quote Page 178. The second quote from an article written in 1905, “French music and German music”, also contained in the Myers volume, page 210.

 * He conducts with his whole body - arms, head and behind together. At moments he seems to dance on his knees; he crouches down; he makes tense and pulsating movements, like electric vibrations, with his hands. He gives explanations in very bad French, and sings out of tune passages that he wants played again; he cares nothing for ridicule; he always looks bored, sulky half asleep - but nevertheless lets nothing escape him.
 * His music stirs me to my very depths. To me the finale is a flood of strength and joy. One always wonders how that could have come out of this. There has been nothing like it in symphonic music since Beethoven.
 * Romain Rolland, describing the rehearsals for and French premier of the Sinfonia Domestica on March 25th 1905. Matthew Boyden, Richard Strauss, page 180.
 * When all is said and done, he was a giant - even if his feet were made of clay.
 * He is one of those musicians about whom it is difficult to write impartially or objectively, as his music is likely to arouse antipathy or admiration according to the temperamental outlook of the individual critic.
 * Rollo H Myers in his Obituary of Richard Strauss, published in The Musical Times, Vol. 90, No. 1280 (Oct., 1949), pp. 347-351

 * I can assure you, that the sun shines in Richard Strauss's music. It is impossible to resist the overwhelming power of this man!
 * He definiteley thinks in colored images. Ein Heldenleben is a book of images, cinematography even.
 * Richard Strauss has neither a foolish wild curly mane, nor the movements of a madman. He is tall and in his free, resolute attitude he looks like one of those great explorers who, with a smile on their faces, cross the territory of savage peoples. Doesn't one need something of this attitude in order to be able to shake the well-mannered public?
 * Claude Debussy, First two quotes from Kurt Wilhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait, page 86. Third quote from It will be all right on the night: Richard Strauss in quotes and anecdotes, ed.(1983) Alexander Witeschnik (1983), page 191.

 * Except for Strauss, there are none but second class composers in Germany.
 * Salome and Pelléas et Mélisande are the most striking works in European music for the last fifteen years.
 * Maurice Ravel. First Quote in Kurt Wihlem, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait, page 86. Second quote from A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews, Arbie Orenstein (editor), Dover Publications Inc, page 232. Strauss and Ravel met several times when Strauss was in Paris to conduct. This quote dates from 1907. The feeling was mutual: Strauss was a great admirer of Ravel.

 * I was aroused as by a flash of lightning by the first Budapest performance of Also Sprach Zarathustra. It contained the seeds for a new life. I started composing again.
 * Béla Bartók, 1902. Quoted in Kurt Wilhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait, page 73.

 * He asked about Vienna and the Opera, listened with great interest, grumbled about the Italian dress rehearsals. He thought opera in German-speaking countries should be performed in German.
 * Even if he has many hard sides to him and often appears cold, in the seven weeks of our tour I have come to recognise him as one of the noblest of men. Every hour spent with him is gain, even when he is silent.
 * Strauss played some from memory. He’s not a good by-heart player, and something extraordinary happened with ‘All mein Gedanken’. Already after the third bar he couldn’t remember the accompaniment anymore and composed an entirely new song. I leapt along with him, the words fitted perfectly, no one in the audience suspected a thing, and when we had made it to the end I turned my eyes to the right to see what his reaction was. All I saw was him grinning from ear to ear—it was really difficult for me to find the calm and seriousness needed for the next song, ‘Freundliche Vision’. After the group we couldn’t stop laughing in the artists’ room, and I asked him to write down the new ‘All mein Gedanken’ straightaway afterwards, but he replied ‘Oh, I’ve already completely forgotten it.’ What a pity! I liked it much more than the original.
 * In America with Richard Strauss. Elisabeth Schumann’s Travel Diary (14th October to 31st December 1921).  Elisabeth Schumann was a soprano who worked with Strauss in the 1920s and 1930s. He dedicated his Brentano Lieder to her.

 * I want to pick the old man's brains for my opera.
 * The Symphonia Domestica was amusing and annoying by turns; but with some lovely bits.
 * Benjamin Britten. The first quote is from March 1943. He had requested the score of Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier whilst writing his first opera Peter Grimes. The second is from 1935, when he was a student and had attended a concert conducted by Richard Strauss. Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten - a life in the twentieth century, Allen Lane, 2013. Page223.

 * Strauss, the new conductor, seemed a hopeless failure; he kept the band as smooth, and also inane, as a linen collar; and his tempi, except for the occasional gallop in the wrong place, were for the most part insufferably slow. We all sat wishing we had not come, and that Strauss had never been born.
 * George Bernard Shaw, reviewing the 1894 Bayreuth Festival at which Strauss appeared for the first time on 22 July, conducting Wagner's opera Tannhauser. Quoted in Great Wagner Conductors: a listener's companion, Jonathan Brown, Canberra: Parrot Press 2012. Page 523. Shaw went on to become a friend and admirer of Strauss: they met a few times later on in London and elsewhere. In 1947 Shaw sent Strauss a signed copy of one of his lartest books, to which Strauss replied with a thank you letter. When he heard of Strauss's death, Shaw sat and played the piano reduction of Ariadne auf Naxos.

 * I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
 * Jessye Norman, quoted at Quoting.com

 * When it comes to the music of Richard Strauss, the bowing makes the fiddler grouse.
 * From the Anonymous German "Bei der Musik von Richard Strauss, findet man die Strichart raus". Quoted in Kurt Wilhem, page 40. A more literal translation is "In the music of Richard Strauss, one finds out how to bow it".

 * Work, as he practised it, was quite a remarkable procedure with Strauss. Nothing of the daemonic, nothing of the artist’s mad exaltation, nothing of those depressions and desperations we know from accounts of Beethoven and Wagner.   Strauss works to the point and composes like Johann Sebastian Bach, like all those sublime craftsmen of their art, quietly and systematically. At nine in the morning he sits down to resume his work just where he left off the day before, always writing the first sketch of his composition in pencil, the piano score in ink, and continues thus without pause until twelve or one o’clock. In the afternoon he plays Skat, a German card game, transfers two or three pages to the final score and possibly conducts an opera in the evening.  He does not know what nervousness is, by day and night his artistic mind is equally alert and lucid.  When his valet knocks on the door to bring his evening clothes, he gets up from his work, dresses, rides to the theatre and conducts with the same assurance and calm with which he plays Skat in the afternoon, and the next morning inspiration again falls into its proper place.
 * I have met a great many artists in my life but never one who knew how to maintain such abstract and unerring objectivity towards himself. Thus Strauss frankly admitted to me in the first hour of our meeting that he well knew, that at seventy the composer’s musical inspiration no longer possesses its pristine power. He could hardly succeed in composing works like Till Eulenspiegel or Death and Transfiguration because just pure music requires an extreme measure of creative freshness. But the World could still inspire him!
 * Portrait of Richard Strauss by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), extract from “The world of Yesterday”, his posthumously published memoires.

 * German Music is unthinkable without Richard Strauss.
 * Wilhelm Furtwängler (Die Deutsche Musik ist ohne Ricard Strauss nicht denkbar). It will be all right on the night: Richard Strauss in quotes and anecdotes, ed.Alexander Witeschnik (1983), page 191.

 * Wagner's music is the most modern and the ultimate. Nobody is beyond that. Strauss's "Progress" is drivel.
 * Thomas Mann (Alexander Witeschnik (1983), page 194).

 * I can assure you sincerely: since Wagner we have not had such a great master as Strauss.
 * Béla Bartok (Alexander Witeschnik (1983), page 194).

 * The greatest impression he made on me: whatever he said or did, happened – with greatest ease.  One never had the impression of being in front of a person who was aware of his own significance or who acted upon it.  There was never any trace of vanity, as with many when faced with the fate of considering oneself above average.
 * Here is another small indication of how Strauss saw himself primarily as a practising musician rather than as a big composer of his time – which he was. In the years leading up to the Second World War, when it was still not the fashion for famous people to give out their private telephone numbers, I would read for the first time in a Garmisch Telephone Book:  Dr. Strauss, Richard, Kapellmeister, and not as one would suspect “Composer”.
 * Hans Hotter (1909-2003), German Baritone who worked with Strauss in his later years, source memoirs.

 * He would write out the full score from the short score with everything, even new counterpoints in ink in the final draft;...he never crossed anything out. If he made a mistake he would take out a pen-knife, carefully erase it, smooth the spot with his nail and write the note over the spot. But there were very few corrections to be done, for he rarely made a mistake. Even with transposing instruments, where it is easy to go wrong. He would write just as the likes of us write a letter.
 * Once, he was sitting at his desk, with me behind him. He was working on the score of Daphne and discussing a Mozart interpretation with me. Upon which I said "But Herr Doktor, you can't talk to me about other things whilst you are working". He replied: "Don't worry, carry on my dear Böhm, I am able to think of the two things at once".
 * Karl Böhm, recalling a visit he had made to Strauss's home in 1936. Quote contained in Richard Strauss by Matthew Boyden (1999), page 326.

 * There was no more hard-working musician in Germany. Mahler was one of many to marvel at his energy, expressing open astonishment at Strauss's ability to produce such a wide-ranging body of music while, simultaneously, sustaining an opera house, an orchestra, conducting guest tours and a family.
 * Matthew Boyden, Richard Strauss by Matthew Boyden (1999), page 181. The comment relates to Strauss's work schedule in 1905.

Quotes from Newspapers

 * “What do I think of Jazz? Jazz is royal concert in the palace of King Attila! The original negro melodies from which it is derived are sublime, but Jazz —" said Dr.Strauss shrugging his shoulders.
 * Sheffield Independent (UK) - Saturday 14 January 1922, reporting an interview given after a concert Strauss conducted at the Manchester Free Trade Hall.

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L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986) was an American science fiction author. He developed Dianetics and founded Scientology. He was the father of Ron DeWolfe.

1930s

 * Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods. I turned the thing up so it's up to me to survive in a big way . . . Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
 * A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938), quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81.

 * God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
 * A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938), quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81.

1940s

 * You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
 * Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (November 7, 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz.
 * This statement is similar or identical to several statements Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include:
 * The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!"
 * L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Shoulder: Reflections On A Science Fiction Era (1983) ISBN 1-880418-11-8.
 * Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
 * As reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse in the 1940s.
 * Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.
 * As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (August 27, 1978)
 * Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
 * As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980).
 * I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult.
 * Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller
 * Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion.
 * Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasadena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller.

1950–1952

 * Benzedrine often helps a case run.
 * "The Intensive Processing Procedure" (1950); "Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone.

 * Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
 * All About Radiation (1952) p. 109.

 * It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties — only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission."
 * Dianetics (1952).

 * You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
 * "Eyesight and glasses" in Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 7, (January 1952).

 * THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
 * Lecture: "Off the Time Track" (June 1952) as quoted in Journal of Scientology issue 18-G, reprinted in Technical Volumes of Dianetics & Scientology Vol. 1, p. 418.

 * Rate of change is this mathematics known as Calculus. … Now I hope you understand this, because I've never been able to make head nor tail of it. It must be some sort of a Black Magic operation, started out by the Luce cult — some immoral people who are operating up in New York City, Rockefeller Plaza — been thoroughly condemned by the whole society. Anyway, their rate-of-change theory — I've never seen any use for that mathematics, by the way — I love that mathematics, because it — I asked an engineer, one time, who was in his 6th year of engineering, if he'd ever used Calculus, and he told me yeah, once, once I did, he said. When did you use it? And he said I used it once. Let me see, what did you use it on? Oh yeah. Something on the rate-of-change of steam particles in boilers. And then we went out and tested it and found the answer was wrong.
 * Philadelphia Doctorate Course, Tape #58 (November 1952).

 * This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
 * On Scientology in Scientology: A History Of Man (1952).

 * Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.
 * Journal of Scientology Issue 1-G, (1952).

 * Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.
 * Philadelphia Doctorate Courses, lecture 24 (1952).

 * You can get a much better fee — I tell you as auditors quite frankly — it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.
 * "Philadelphia Doctorate Course" #15 (1952).

Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

 * The creation of Dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch." Opening line.

 * A large proportion of allegedly feeble-minded children are actually attempted abortion cases . . . However many billions America spends yearly on institutions for the insane and jails for the criminals are spent primarily because of attempted abortions done by some sex-blocked mother to whom children are a curse, not a blessing of God . . . All these things are scientific facts, tested and rechecked and tested again.

 * Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.
 * 1987 Edition, p. 72.

 * Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.
 * 1987 Edition, p. 226.

 * There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

Science of Survival (1951)

 * In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.
 * The "Tone Scale" is Scientology's measure of mental and spiritual health; p. 145.

 * Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
 * p. 159.

 * There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.
 * p. 170.

 * The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
 * p. 170.

 * A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
 * p. 171

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 * A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.

 * Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

 * Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

 * No civilization can progress to the stability of continuous survival without certain and sure command of knowledge such as that contained in Dianetics. For Dianetics, skillfully used, can do exactly what it claims. It can, in the realm of the individual, prevent or alleviate insanity, neurosis, compulsions and obsessions and it can bring about physical well-being, removing the basic cause of some 70% of man's illnesses. It can, in the field of the family, bring about better accord and harmony. It can, in the field of nations or smaller groups such as those of industry, improve management to a point where these pitifully inadequate ideologies, for which men fight and die with such frightening earnestness, can be laid aside in favor of a workable technology.

1953–1954

 * Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'
 * Journal of Scientology Issue 15-G (1953).

 * there is no war not based on lies, there is no infamy alive without its kindred kin, deceit.
 * "There Is No Compromise With Truth" (a poem written in 1953 or 1954).

 * You are a spirit, then, you Man, and not a Man at all. You are a spirit and you dwell within the guts of mortal beast.
 * "There Is No Compromise With Truth" (a poem written in 1953 or 1954).

 * You are a spirit, then a god, full capable of making space and energy and time and all things well. And there you crouch, forgotten to yourself and hidden from the eyes of all pretending there to be a beast that walks and eats and dies.
 * "There Is No Compromise With Truth" ( a poem written in 1953 or 1954).

 * Scientology … is not a religion.
 * The Creation Of Human Ability (1954), p. 251 ISBN 0884044300

 * Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
 * The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).

 * The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
 * Dianetics 55! (1954).

1955–1959

 * The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
 * A Manual on the Dissemination of Material (1955).

 * There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
 * Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (July 15, 1957).

 * When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
 * Manual Of Justice (1959).

 * People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.
 * Manual Of Justice (1959).

 * So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
 * Manual Of Justice (1959).

1961–1969

 * Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
 * Saint Hill Special Briefing Course 35 (July 19, 1961).

 * The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: "The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical."  All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
 * My Philosophy (1965).

 * I have lived no cloistered life and hold in contempt the wise man who has not lived and the scholar who will not share. There have been many wiser men than I, but few have traveled as much road. I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
 * My Philosophy (1965).

 * A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [sic] her (5) use her sexually (6) sterilize her to prevent conception (7) kill her by a brain operation to prevent disclosure. And all with no fear of reprisal. Yet it is rape and murder… We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one… This is Project Psychiatry. We will remove them.
 * Confidential memo "Project Psychiatry" (February 22, 1966).

 * It is all very well to sit back and hope for "the best in this best of all possible worlds" but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
 * "Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (March 20, 1966).

 * Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
 * "Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (March 20, 1966).

 * In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.
 * "Ron's Journal" (1967).

 * I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
 * Letter to his wife (1967) as quoted in L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? (1989) by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr (Ronald DeWolfe).

 * Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
 * The Factors (1967).

 * Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.
 * In answer to the question as to whether he ever thought he might be quite mad. Granada Television World in Action documentary on Scientology (1967).

 * Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.
 * "Assists" lecture, #10 in the confidential Class VIII series of lectures (October 3, 1968).

 * Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you.
 * "Dianetic Contract" (May 23, 1969).

 * I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.
 * "Why Feel Guilty?" (1969).

1970–1976

 * Advanced Courses are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent … There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.
 * On his Operating Thetan Courses, in Flag Mission Order 375 (1970).

 * Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game — interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.
 * Scientology : The Fundamentals of Thought (1973).

 * Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.
 * Dianetics And Scientology Technical Dictionary (1975); 1987 edition, p. 370.

 * That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!
 * After learning of his son Quentin Hubbard's suicide attempt in 1976, as quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah : The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 344; Quentin died a couple of weeks later, without ever regaining consciousness.

1982–1998

 * "Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species."
 * Battlefield Earth (1982) Ch 1.

 * Scientology means scio, knowing in the fullest sense of the word, and logos, study. In itself the word means knowing how to know. Scientology is a 'route,' a way, rather than a dissertation or assertive body of knowledge. Through its drills and studies one may find the truth for himself. The technology is therefore not expounded as something to believe, but something to do.
 * The Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and Scientology (1988), p. 34.

 * Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
 * A New Slant on Life (1998).

 * To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
 * A New Slant on Life (1998).

 * On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
 * A New Slant on Life (1998).

Scientology Bulletins

 * Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game — interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.
 * "The Reason Why" (May 15, 1956).

 * You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons "The work was free. Keep it so."
 * "Scientology: Clear Procedure - Issue One" (December 1957).

 * Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap.
 * "Honest People Have Rights, Too" (February 8, 1960).

 * All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they're bad, it's only evident they're codes. Mores bind the race. Co-action then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in man's company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart.
 * "Clean Hands Make a Happy Life" (October 5, 1961).

 * Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.
 * "Critics of Scientology" (November 5, 1967).

 * The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…
 * "Psychosis" (November 28, 1970).

 * There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
 * "The Cause of Crime" (May 6, 1982).

Scientology Policy Letters

 * If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.
 * Dept. of Govt. Affairs (August 15, 1960).

 * We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.
 * (November 7, 1962).

 * There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

 * When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe — never permit an "open-minded" approach... If they enrolled, they're aboard, and if they're aboard they're here on the same terms as the rest of us — win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half minded about being Scientologists. … When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare. … The proper instruction attitude is, "We'd rather have you dead than incapable."

 * We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.
 * "Keeping Scientology Working" (February 7, 1965).

 * A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
 * "Politics" (February 13, 1965).

 * A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
 * "Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists" (March 1, 1965).

 * This is the correct procedure: Spot who is attacking us. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way.
 * "Attacks on Scientology" (February 25, 1966).

 * When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.
 * "The Responsibilities of Leaders" (February 12, 1967) (Bulgravia is an acronym of BULgaria, GReece, Albania and YugoslaVIA].

 * ENEMY: SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.
 * "Penalties for Lower Conditions" (October 18, 1967).

 * The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
 * "Cancellation of Fair Game" (October 21, 1968).

 * The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are: 1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine). 2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups. 3. A few key political figures in the fields of "mental health" and education. 4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations [that] would make us unable to function.
 * "Targets, Defense" (February 16, 1969).

 * "Psychiatry" and "psychiatrist" are easily redefined to mean "an anti-social enemy of the people". This takes the kill crazy psychiatrist off the preferred list of professions … The redefinition of words is done by associating different emotions and symbols with the word than were intended...Scientologists are redefining "doctor", "Psychiatry" and "psychology" to mean "undesirable antisocial elements"...The way to redefine a word is to get the new definition repeated as often as possible. Thus it is necessary to redefine medicine, psychiatry and psychology downward and define Dianetics and Scientology upwards. This, so far as words are concerned, is the public opinion battle for belief in your definitions, and not those of the opposition. A consistent, repeated effort is the key to any success with this technique of propaganda.
 * "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words" (October 5, 1971).

 * MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
 * "Principles of Money Management" (March 9, 1972).

Misattributed

 * There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
 * Kingman Brewster, Jr..

Quotes about Hubbard

 * In alphabetical order by author or source.

 * In addition to violating and abusing its own members' civil rights, the organization [Scientology] over the years with its "Fair Game" doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH [L. Ron Hubbard]. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents.
 * Superior Court Judge Paul Breckinridge, Church of Scientology of California vs. Gerald Armstrong (June 20, 1984).

 * People mistake L. Ron Hubbard and his Scientology. They see the apparency, and not the actuality. By design. Scientology does not work as stated; but as intended. As intended by its creator L Ron Hubbard. To keep the Doorway open. To remain in the realm of the Great Beast. To feed the hunger of the Will. His Will. When he emptied the purse of man and the heart of women; it seeks onward and outward. Appetite. Forever appetite. Scientology is the snare. The passion flower. the Cloak of Lights. The glow of power. A power always wanting. Always needing. The Will never satisfied.
 * Ron DeWolfe eldest son of Hubbard (born L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.) (1980), The Telling of Me, by Me, as quoted in Jamie DeWolf: I’ve found the last memoir of the son of Scientology’s founder, http://tonyortega.org (May 10, 2014).

 * He is a fraud and has always been a fraud. … My father has always used the confidential information extracted from people during [auditing] to intimidate, threaten and coerce them to do what he wanted, which often meant getting them to give him money. My father routinely used false threats and [information from confessionals] particularly about crimes people had committed to extort money from them. … My father has always held out Scientology and auditing to be based purely on science and not on religious "belief" or faith. We regularly promised and distributed publications with "scientific guarantees". This was and has always been common practice. My father and I created a "religious front" only for tax purposes and legal protection 'from fraud Claims'. We almost always told nearly everyone that Scientology was really science, not a religion, but that the religious front was created to deal with the government.
 * Ron DeWolfe eldest son of Hubbard (born L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.), in an affadavit in Schaick v. Church of Scientology, US District Court Mass., No. 79-2491.

 * Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ's sakes! … We were sitting around one night … who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich". And somebody said, "why don't you invent a new religion? They're always big." We were clowning! You know, "Become Elmer Gantry! You'll make a fortune!" He says, "I'm going to do it."
 * Harlan Ellison, in "The Real Harlan Ellison" in Wings (November-December 1978), p. 32.

 * He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.
 * Harlan Ellison, introduction to Angry Candy (1988).

 * In my opinion Hubbard was an evil man and a willfully evil man. He knew what he was doing.
 * James Randi in an on-camera interview in (1999).

 * It's too bad there isn't a 20th Century Charles Dickens to write about the terrible destruction of these 20th Century Fagins who make themselves rich while they destroy the psyche of so many.
 * US Congressman Leo J. Ryan in a letter to Ida Camburn (December 10, 1976). 1976 Congressman Leo Ryan letter to Ida Camburn.

 * The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.
 * Lawrence Wright, (February 14, 2011). "The Apostate, Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology". The New Yorker.

Official sites

 * Official L. Ron Hubbard biography site, from the Church of Scientology
 * The Ron Series published by the Church of Scientology
 * Scientology.org's Hubbard page
 * Author Services Inc., L. Ron Hubbard's literary agency
 * L. Ron Hubbard Media Resources

Critical sites

 * FBI Files from The Smoking Gun (in which Hubbard asks for protection from communists)
 * Operation Clambake (a comprehensive archive of critical material on Hubbard and Scientology)
 * L. Ron Hubbard - The Rotten Library
 * A glossary of Scientology terms as used on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology
 * "Judge found Hubbard lied about achievements" Boston Herald (March 1, 1998)
 * "L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's esteemed founder," by Michael Crowley (Slate magazine, July 15, 2005).

Neutral sites

 * Annotated bibliography of literature by and about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, by Marco Frenschkowski
 * Rick A. Ross Institute - links to many articles both for and against Scientology
 * Negative: Summary of Hubbard's writing career, hosted on Amazon.com
 * Positive: Hubbard's writings, hosted on Amazon

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 * Because that is the way Wikis are set up: so that everyone can participate. The occasional vandal's edits are usually soon reverted because hundreds or thousands can be monitoring changes on the Wikipedia, and even a smaller Wiki like this project can have dozens of active participants keeping track of things during a day. ~ Kalki 05:18, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio problem and cleanup
I've flagged this article as a likely copyright violation because it contains substantial quoting from a copyrighted work. I ask the editors of this article to try to reduce the amount of quotes severely. I estimate that we have about 30 paperback-sized pages of quotes here, for a book that is about 430 paperback-pages long, or about 7% of the book. This is too much by any reasonable fair-use standard.

While we have no formal guidelines yet on a maximum amount of quoting for a book, I would recommend cutting it down to less than 1%. This may horrify Tolkien fans, but we need to focus on the very best, most pithy and original quotes from works. This means thinking more like editors of a Bartlett's Famous Quotations than of a fan website. While all of the prose in TRotK is quite impressive, we should try to get the most memorable lines, and avoid quotes that merely describe pivotal events, illuminate characters and personalities with less-than-unique phrases, and provide other examples that probably wouldn't make it into a top-20 list.

I expect to return to this page sometime after 00:00, 14 August 2007 UTC (i.e, about a week) and see how things are going. If necessary, I will start chopping out large amounts of material at that time. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:16, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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The first edition of The Lord of the Rings is out of copyright in the United States. So long as the quotes are taken from the first edition, there is no copyright issue here under U.S. law. Note that most of Tolkien's changes for the second edition that has been in print since 1966 were to the Appendices, so while Appendices to The Lord of the Rings could use a good trimming on copyvio grounds, most, if not all of the quotes in the three articles you tagged aren't copyvio's in the U.S. (though they would be in most Berne Convention countries.) 4.152.3.132 17:44, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

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Chinatown (1974 film)

Chinatown is a 1974 film about a private investigator hired to expose an adultery case, but his investigation turns into a mystery of elements: murder, betrayal, and water.
 * Directed by Roman Polanski. Written by Robert Towne.

J. J. "Jake" Gittes

 * Listen, pal. I make an honest living. People only come to me when they're in a desperate situation. I help 'em out. I don't kick families out of their houses like you bums down at the bank do.
 * So there's this guy Walsh, do you understand? He's tired of screwin' his wife... So his friend says to him, "Hey, why don't you do it like the Chinese do?" So he says, "How do the Chinese do it?" And the guy says, "Well, the Chinese, first they screw a little bit, then they stop, then they go and read a little Confucius, come back, screw a little bit more, then they stop again, and then they go out and they contemplate the moon or something like that. Makes it more exciting". So now, the guy goes home and he starts screwin' his own wife, see. So he screws her for a little bit and then he stops, and he goes out of the room and reads Life magazine. Then he goes back in, he starts screwin' again. He says, "Excuse me for a minute, honey". He goes out and he smokes a cigarette. Now his wife is gettin' sore as hell. He comes back in the room, he starts screwin' again. He gets up to start to leave again to go look at the moon. She looks at him and says, "Hey, whats the matter with ya. You're screwin' just like a Chinaman!" [Laughs hysterically]
 * [To Lt. Lou Escobar] You're dumber than you think I think you are.
 * [To Escobar, mocking him] Come on, Lou, you're in charge. Make a decision.

Others

 * Morty: In the middle of a drought and the water commissioner drowns! Only in L.A.
 * Man with Knife: You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses. [flicks knife, cutting open Jake's nostril] Next time you lose the whole thing. Cut it off and feed it to my goldfish. Understand? Understand!?
 * Lawrence Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
 * Note: Bold line ranked #74 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Dialogue

 * Curly: She's just no good.
 * Gittes: What can I tell you, kid? You're right. When you're right, you're right, and you're right.

 * Evelyn: I've never hired you to do anything, certainly not to spy on my husband. I see you like publicity, Mr. Gittes. Well, you're going to get it.
 * Gittes: Now wait a minute, Mrs. Mulwray. I think there's been some misunderstanding here. There's no point in getting tough with me. I'm just trying--
 * Evelyn: I don't get tough with anyone, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does.

 * Yelburton: After you've worked with a man a certain length of time, you come to know his habits, his values - you come to know him - and either he's the kind who chases after women or he isn't.
 * Gittes: Mulwray isn't?
 * Yelburton: He never even kids about it.
 * Gittes: Well, maybe he takes it very seriously.

 * Gittes: Mulvihill! What are you doing here?
 * Mulvihill: They shut my water off. What's it to you?
 * Gittes: How'd you find out about it? You don't drink it; you don't take a bath in it... They wrote you a letter. But then you have to be able to read.

 * Gittes: I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business. And believe me, Mrs. Mulwray, whoever set your husband up set me up. LA's a small town, people talk. I'm just trying to make a living. I don't want to become a local joke.
 * Evelyn: Mr. Gittes. You talked me into it. I'll drop the lawsuit.
 * Gittes: What?
 * Evelyn: I said I'll drop the lawsuit. So let's just drop the whole thing.
 * Gittes: I don't want to drop it. I'd better talk to your husband about this.
 * Evelyn: Why? What on earth for? Hollis seems to think you're an innocent man.
 * Gittes: Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that. Look. Somebody's gone to a lot of trouble here and lawsuit or no lawsuit, I intend to find out. I'm not supposed to be the one who's caught with his pants down. So unless it's a problem, I'd like to talk to your husband.
 * Evelyn: Why should it be a problem?
 * Gittes: May I speak frankly, Mrs. Mulwray?
 * Evelyn: Only if you can, Mr. Gittes.
 * Gittes: Well, that little girlfriend. She was pretty in a cheap sort of a way, of course. She's disappeared. Maybe they disappeared together.
 * Evelyn: Suppose they did. How does that affect you?
 * Gittes: It's nothing personal, Mrs. Mulwray.
 * Evelyn: It's very personal. It couldn't be more personal. Is this a business or an obsession with you?

 * Escobar: So, tell me Gittes, how'd you get past the guard?
 * Gittes: Well, to tell you the truth, I lied a little.

 * Escobar: You look like you've done well by yourself.
 * Gittes: I get by.
 * Escobar: Well, sometimes it takes a while for a man to find himself. Maybe you have.
 * Loach: Yeah, goin' through other people's dirty linen.
 * Gittes: Yeah. Tell me. You still puttin' Chinamen in jail for spittin' in the laundry?
 * Escobar: You're a little behind the times, Jake. They use steam irons now. And I'm out of Chinatown.
 * Gittes: Since when?
 * Escobar: Since I made Lieutenant.
 * Gittes: Congratulations.

 * Escobar: [pointing to a scribbled note on the wall] Isn't that your phone number?
 * Gittes: Is it? I forget. I don't call myself that often.

 * Escobar: You must really think I’m stupid, don’t you, Gittes?
 * Gittes: I don’t think about it that much, but give me a day or two and I’ll get back to you.

 * Gittes: [on the phone] Hello, Miss Sessions. I don't believe we've had the pleasure."
 * Ida Sessions: Oh, yes we have. Are you alone?
 * Gittes: Isn't everybody?

 * Evelyn: Tell me, Mr. Gittes: Does this often happen to you?
 * Gittes: What's that?
 * Evelyn: Well, I'm judging only on the basis of one afternoon and an evening, but, uh, if this is how you go about your work, I'd say you'd be lucky to, uh, get through a whole day.
 * Gittes: Actually, this hasn't happened to me for a long time.
 * Evelyn: When was the last time?
 * Gittes: Why?
 * Evelyn: It's an innocent question.
 * Gittes: In Chinatown.
 * Evelyn: What were you doing there?
 * Gittes: Working for the District Attorney.
 * Evelyn: Doing what?
 * Gittes: As little as possible.
 * Evelyn: The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?
 * Gittes: They do in Chinatown.

 * Gittes: Something else besides the death of your husband was bothering you. You were upset, but not that upset.
 * Evelyn: Mr. Gittes. Don't tell me how I feel.
 * Gittes: Sorry. Look. You sue me. Your husband dies. You drop the lawsuit like a hot potato all of it quicker than the wind from a duck's ass. Excuse me, uh. Then you ask me to lie to the police.
 * Evelyn: It wasn't much of a lie.
 * Gittes: If your husband was killed, it was. This could look like you paid me off to withhold evidence.
 * Evelyn: But he wasn't killed.
 * Gittes: Mrs. Mulwray. I think you're hiding something.
 * Evelyn: Well, I suppose I am. Actually, I knew about the affair.
 * Gittes: How did you find out?
 * Evelyn: My husband.
 * Gittes: He told you? [She nods yes] And you weren't the least bit upset?
 * Evelyn: I was grateful.
 * Gittes: Mrs. Mulwray, you'll have to explain that.
 * Evelyn: Why?
 * Gittes: Look. I do matrimonial work. It's my métier. When a wife tells me that she's happy that her husband is cheating on her, it runs contrary to my experience.
 * Evelyn: Unless what?
 * Gittes: She was cheating on him. Were you?
 * Evelyn: I dislike the word cheat.
 * Gittes: Did you have affairs?
 * Evelyn: Mr. Gittes.
 * Gittes: Did he know about it?
 * Evelyn: Well, I wouldn't run home and tell him every time I went to bed with someone, if that's what you mean. Is there anything else you want to know about me?
 * Gittes: Where were you when your husband died?
 * Evelyn: I can't tell you.
 * Gittes: You mean you don't know where you were?
 * Evelyn: I mean I can't tell you.
 * Gittes: You were seeing someone too. For very long?
 * Evelyn: I don't see anyone for very long, Mr. Gittes. It's difficult for me. Now, I think you know all you need know about me. I didn't want publicity. I didn't want to go into any of this then or now. Is that all?
 * Gittes: [After nodding yes, he remembers to ask one final question, holding up the envelope with initials "E C" for a return address] Oh, by the way, uh, what does this C stand for?
 * Evelyn: Cr...Cross.
 * Gittes: That's your maiden name?
 * Evelyn: Yes. Why?
 * Gittes: No reason.
 * Evelyn: You must have had a reason to ask me that.
 * Gittes: No. I'm just a snoop.
 * Gittes: OK, go home, but in case you're interested, your husband was murdered. Somebody's been dumping thousands of tons of water from the city's reservoirs and we're supposed to be in the middle of a drought. He found out about it and he was killed. There's a waterlogged drunk in the morgue, involuntary manslaughter if anybody wants to take the trouble - which they don't. It seems like half the city is trying to cover it all up, which is fine by me. But Mrs. Mulwray, I goddamned near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still think that you're hiding something.
 * Gittes: OK, go home, but in case you're interested, your husband was murdered. Somebody's been dumping thousands of tons of water from the city's reservoirs and we're supposed to be in the middle of a drought. He found out about it and he was killed. There's a waterlogged drunk in the morgue, involuntary manslaughter if anybody wants to take the trouble - which they don't. It seems like half the city is trying to cover it all up, which is fine by me. But Mrs. Mulwray, I goddamned near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still think that you're hiding something.

 * Yelburton: My goodness, what happened to your nose?
 * Gittes: Cut myself shavin'.
 * Yelburton: Oh, you ought to be more careful. That must really smart.
 * Gittes: Only when I breathe.

 * Cross: You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gittes. I like that.
 * Gittes: Thanks.
 * Cross: If you were a bank president, that would be one thing. But in your business it's admirable and it's good advertising.
 * Gittes: It doesn't hurt.
 * Cross: It's, um, why you attracted a client like my daughter.
 * Gittes: Probably.
 * Cross: But I'm surprised you're still working for her - unless she's suddenly come up with another husband.
 * Gittes: No. She happens to think the last one was murdered.
 * Cross: Umm, how'd she get that idea?
 * Gittes: I think I gave it to her.
 * Cross: [about the fish served for lunch] I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head.
 * Gittes: Fine. As long as you don't serve the chicken that way.

 * Cross: Gittes. You're dealing with a disturbed woman who's just lost her husband. I don't want her taken advantage of. Sit down.
 * Gittes: What for?
 * Cross: You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't. [Gittes smiles] Why is that funny?
 * Gittes: It's what the district attorney used to tell me in Chinatown.
 * Cross: Yeah? Was he right? Exactly what do you know about me? Sit down.
 * Gittes: Mainly that you're rich, and too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.
 * Cross: Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

 * Loach: What happened to your nose, Gittes? Somebody slam a bedroom window on it?
 * Gittes: Nope, your wife got excited. She crossed her legs a little too quick. You understand what I mean, pal?

 * Gittes: A memorial service was held at the Mar Vista Inn today for Jasper Lamar Crabb. He passed away two weeks ago.
 * Evelyn: Why is that unusual?
 * Gittes: He passed away two weeks ago and one week ago he bought the land. That's unusual.

 * Gittes: [referring to the bifocals] I found these in your backyard in the pond. They belonged to your husband, didn’t they? Didn’t they?
 * Evelyn: I don’t know. Yes, probably.
 * Gittes: Yes, positively! It’s where he was drowned.
 * Evelyn: [in disbelief] What?
 * Gittes: There's no time to be shocked by the truth. The coroner's report proves that he had salt water in his lungs when he was killed. Just take my word for it, all right? Now, I want to know how it happened, and I want to know why, and I want to know before Escobar gets here because I don't want to lose my license.
 * Evelyn: I don’t know what you’re talking about! I mean this is the craziest, the most insane—
 * [Gittes shakes Evelyn]
 * Gittes: Stop it! I want to make it easy for ya. You were jealous. You had a fight. He fell. He hit his head. It was an accident but his girl is a witness. So you had to shut her up. You don't have the guts to harm her, but you got the money to keep her mouth shut. Yes or no?
 * Evelyn: No!
 * Gittes: Who is she? And don't give me that crap about your sister because you don't have a sister.
 * Evelyn: I'll tell you. I'll tell you the truth.
 * Gittes: Good. What's her name?
 * Evelyn: Katherine.
 * Gittes: Katherine who?
 * Evelyn: She's my daughter.
 * [Gittes slaps Evelyn.]
 * Gittes: I said I want the truth.
 * Evelyn: She's my sister.
 * [He slaps her again.]
 * Evelyn: She's my daughter.
 * [Another slap.]
 * Evelyn: My sister, my daughter.
 * [Two more slaps.]
 * Gittes: I said I want the truth!
 * Evelyn: She's my sister and my daughter!
 * [Evelyn’s butler, alerted by their screaming, comes downstairs]
 * Evelyn: Kahn! No, please! Go back! For God’s sake, keep her upstairs! Go back!
 * [The butler goes back upstairs]
 * Evelyn: My father and I.... Understand? Or is it too tough for you?
 * [Gittes stares as her as she breaks down crying]

 * Cross: What does it mean?
 * Gittes: That you killed Hollis Mulwray - right here - in that pond. You drowned him, and you left these [the bifocals]. Coroner's report shows Mulwray had saltwater in his lungs.
 * Cross: Hollis was always fascinated by tidepools. You know what he used to say?...That's where life begins. Sloughs, tidepools. When he first come out here, he figured if you dumped water into the desert sand and let it percolate down to the bedrock, it would stay there instead of evaporate the way it does in most reservoirs. You only lose 20% instead of 70 or 80. He made this city.
 * Gittes: That's what you were going to do in the valley.
 * Cross: That's what I am doing. If the bond issue passes Tuesday, there'll be eight million dollars to build an aqueduct and reservoir. I'm doing it.
 * Gittes: Gonna be a lot of irate citizens when they find out that they're paying for water that they're not gonna get.
 * Cross: Oh, that's all taken care of. You see, Mr. Gits. Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.
 * Gittes: How you gonna do that?
 * Cross: By incorporating the valley into the city. Simple as that.
 * Gittes: How much are you worth?
 * Cross: I've no idea. How much do you want?
 * Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
 * Cross: Oh my, yes!
 * Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
 * Cross: The future, Mr. Gits - the future! Now where's the girl? I want the only daughter I've got left. As you found out, Evelyn was lost to me a long time ago.
 * Gittes: Who do you blame for that - her?
 * Cross: I don't blame myself. You see, Mr. Gits, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time, the right place, they're capable of anything.

 * Gittes: Evelyn, put that gun away. Let the police handle this.
 * Evelyn: He owns the police!

Cast

 * Jack Nicholson - Jake 'J.J' Gittes
 * Faye Dunaway - Evelyn Cross Mulwray
 * John Huston - Noah Cross
 * Perry Lopez - Lieutenant Lou Escobar
 * John Hillerman - Russ Yelburton
 * Darrell Zwerling - Hollis I. Mulwray
 * Diane Ladd - Ida Sessions
 * Roy Jenson - Claude Mulvihill
 * Roman Polanski - Man with Knife
 * Richard Bakalyan - Detective Loach
 * Joe Mantell - Lawrence Walsh
 * Bruce Glover - Duffy
 * Nandu Hinds - Sophie
 * James Hong - Kahn, Evelyn's Butler
 * Beulah Quo - Maid
 * Belinda Palmer - Katherine Cross
 * Burt Young - Curly
 * Jerry Fujikawa - Gardener

title: Chinatown (1974 film)