Fred Allen Quotes
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. Imitation is the sincerest form of television. It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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