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I kept a bookcase at the theatre [during I Remember Mama] and when I wasn't onstage, I sat in a corner under a lamp set up by the prop man and studied. One night Richard Rogers came to the theater, saw me reading in my corner in the short pants I wore onstage, and came over to say hello...He leaned over and peered at the book in my hands. It was the Discourses of Epictetus, then he scanned the other titles in the bookcase-Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and books by Thoreau, Gibbon and Rousseau. Then he looked at me with a perplexed expression and walked away without saying another word....
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A collection of approximately 229 books on politics and philosophy, some with portions of the text underlined and highlighted and with notes in the margin in Brando's hand, titles include: MAYER, Milton On Liberty: Man v. The State, Santa Barbara, 1969, heavily annotated in Brando's hand, inscribed on the inside front cover in black ink U.S Supreme Court, twisted chronicle of human justice at best....although I have succomed [sic] to a sense of hopeless even as a dying dog twitches in the thros [sic] of his last moments; EPICTETUS Discourses and Enchiridion, Roslyn, 1944; KANT, Immanuel The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason and other Ethical Treatises, The Critique of Judgement, Chicago, 1952; HOOK, Sidney Political Power and Personal Freedom, New York, 1959, heavily annotated in Brando's hand in blue ink including Reason is ever subjected to the contagion of emotion.... Why is there an incessant belief that men will listen to reason and in response to a debate between communist and democratic philosophies This presupposes an incredibly complex system of lying... What of our economic proselytizing, and the evangelical spirit in western Christians, what of that...; HAMILTON, Alexander, JAY, John and MADISON, James The Federalist Papers, New York, 1964, inscribed in Brando's hand on the back cover Cannot change principals like socks... My country right or wrong, when she's right keep her right and when she's wrong make her right... separate but equal doctrine, Pleasey [sic] v Fergeson; SARTRE, Jean-Paul Being and Nothingness, New York, 1954; PAINE, Thomas The Rights of Man, London, 1949; McKEON, Richard (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle, New York, 1941; NIETZSCHE, Friedrich On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, New York, 1969; STALIN, Joseph Anarchism or Socialism, Moscow, 1951; DU NOÜY, Lecomte Human Destiny, New York, 1947 (a lot)
A collection of approximately 229 books on politics and philosophy, some with portions of the text underlined and highlighted and with notes in the margin in Brando's hand, titles include: MAYER, Milton On Liberty: Man v. The State, Santa Barbara, 1969, heavily annotated in Brando's hand, inscribed on the inside front cover in black ink U.S Supreme Court, twisted chronicle of human justice at best....although I have succomed [sic] to a sense of hopeless even as a dying dog twitches in the thros [sic] of his last moments; EPICTETUS Discourses and Enchiridion, Roslyn, 1944; KANT, Immanuel The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason and other Ethical Treatises, The Critique of Judgement, Chicago, 1952; HOOK, Sidney Political Power and Personal Freedom, New York, 1959, heavily annotated in Brando's hand in blue ink including Reason is ever subjected to the contagion of emotion.... Why is there an incessant belief that men will listen to reason and in response to a debate between communist and democratic philosophies This presupposes an incredibly complex system of lying... What of our economic proselytizing, and the evangelical spirit in western Christians, what of that...; HAMILTON, Alexander, JAY, John and MADISON, James The Federalist Papers, New York, 1964, inscribed in Brando's hand on the back cover Cannot change principals like socks... My country right or wrong, when she's right keep her right and when she's wrong make her right... separate but equal doctrine, Pleasey [sic] v Fergeson; SARTRE, Jean-Paul Being and Nothingness, New York, 1954; PAINE, Thomas The Rights of Man, London, 1949; McKEON, Richard (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle, New York, 1941; NIETZSCHE, Friedrich On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, New York, 1969; STALIN, Joseph Anarchism or Socialism, Moscow, 1951; DU NOÜY, Lecomte Human Destiny, New York, 1947 (a lot)