Match them please:
- We all know PMs are wedded to the truth but like other married couples, they sometimes live apart.
- The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- A good composer does not imitate … he steals.
- Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- The medium is the message.
a. Igor Stravinsky (1967)
b. Stanley Kubrik (1963)
c. TS Eliot (1936)
d. James Thurber (1937)
e. Saki (1912)
f. Marshal McLuhan (1964)
We all know PMs are wedded to the truth but like other married couples, they sometimes live apart.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
a. Igor Stravinsky (1967) A good composer does not imitate … he steals. (?)
b. Stanley Kubrik (1963) The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.(?)
c. TS Eliot (1936) Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
d. James Thurber (1937) Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? (?)
e. Saki (1912) We all know PMs are wedded to the truth but like other married couples, they sometimes live apart.(?)
f. Marshal McLuhan (1964) The medium is the message.
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JH: All from the Oxford Book of Quotations, 1999.
P.Yates: Twentieth Century Music, 1967.
Guardian, 5 Jun, 1963.
New Yorker cartoon, 5 Jun, 1937.
The Unbearable Bassington, 1912.