7/54 It depends, John, not on the amount and quality of the hell, but on the man who's frying on the gridiron." Annan said: "Personally I don't see how Kelly _could_ paint happiness or sorrow or wonder or fear into any of his creations any more convincingly than he does. And yet--and yet--sometimes we love men for their shortcomings--for the sincerity of their blunders--for the fallible humanity in them. That after all is where love starts. The rest--what Kelly shows us--evokes wonder, delight, awe, enthusiasm.... If he could only make us love him--" "_I_ love him!" said Burleson. |