Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Cuckoo is Okay


In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles, as the mysterious Harry Lime in The Third Man, spoke those words. Uncredited as scriptwriter, Orson supposedly improvised the quote.

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