Fathermckenzie 13:51, domenica 20 agosto 2017:
> Il 20/08/2017 11:17, Voce dalla Germania ha scritto:
>
>>> 1. Ho visto la frase del titolo attribuita a diversi
>>> personaggi, tra cui Luis Buñuel e Woody Allen. In questi
>>> casi, l'esperienza insegna che probabilmente non è stata
>>> inventata da nessuno dei due. Quindi, qual è il vero
>>> autore?
>
>> La logica dice:
>> - Il più vecchio tra i diversi personaggi che hai trovato.
>> Però può darsi che questa attribuzione sia inventata
>
> Altrove l'ho trovata attribuita a Groucho Marx, che è molto
> più vecchio di Woody e aveva una decina d'anni in più del pur
> vegliardo Buñuel.
Ah non era di Stalin?
:-)
* To you I'm an atheist; to God I'm the loyal opposition.
o Woody Allen, Stardust Memories (1980).
* Je suis toujours athée, gràce á Dieu.
o Translation: I'm still an atheist, thank God.
o Luis Buñuel, in Michèle Manceaux, "Luis Buñuel: athée
gràce á Dieu", L'Express, May 12, 1960, p. 41. See "On Luis
Buñuel's Aphorism 'Thank God I'm an Atheist'", Aphelis.
o Seventeen years later, Buñuel expressed a different
attitude in another interview: "I'm not a Christian, but I'm
not an atheist either," he says. "I'm weary of hearing that
accidental old aphorism of mine "I'm not an atheist, thank
God." It's outworn. Dead leaves. In 1951, I made a small film
called 'Mexican Bus Ride,' about a village too poor to support
a church and a priest. The place was serene, because no one
suffered from guilt. It's guilt we must escape, not God."
(Penelope Gilliat, "Long Live the Living!", The New Yorker,
December 5, 1977, p. 54) As Aphelis notes, "There's most
likely a small confusion when Buñuel quotes his own aphorism:
instead of 'I'm not an atheist, thank God' — which doesn't
correspond [to] what he said in 1960 — one should read 'I'm an
atheist, thank God.' That's the aphorism Buñuel didn't agree
with anymore in 1977."
o Although the aphorism is associated with Buñuel, it
did not originate with him. Samuel Butler (1835–1902) mentions
in his Note-Books having heard of a man exclaiming "I am an
atheist, thank God!" Even earlier, there is a rather similar
aphorism by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atheism