"Brendan Gill" wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.

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We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.

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There's a lot of communication going on and that's why we're having a face-to-face meeting. We're not worried but we won't be satisfied until we have the (funding plan) approved.

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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

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If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future.

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Parody is homage gone sour.

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If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

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The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states.

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