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Eugene Ionesco: The light of...

Eugene Ionesco: The light of...

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. . . . I am not quite...

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Jean Racine: Small crimes always...

Jean Racine: Small crimes always...

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Edward Albee: A play is...

Edward Albee: A play is...

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Source: In NY Times, 18...

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Edward Albee: You gotta have...

Edward Albee: You gotta have...

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

Source: Who's Afraid of...

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Thomas Otway: Shining through tears,...

Thomas Otway: Shining through tears,...

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers,
That labour to o'ercome the cloud that loads...

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William Wycherley: He's a fool...

William Wycherley: He's a fool...

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool;
what is wit in a wife good for, but to...

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William Wycherley: Marrying to increase...

William Wycherley: Marrying to increase...

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had...

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Peter Drucker: If a manager...

Peter Drucker: If a manager...

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on human relations the group is probably too...

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No dancer can...

No dancer can...

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another...

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The heart of...

The heart of...

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

Source: Conversations,...

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The first thing...

The first thing...

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

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The ballet is...

The ballet is...

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the...

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The barriers are...

The barriers are...

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no...

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Music . ....

Music . ....

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Source: The...

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Reviewing music or...

Reviewing music or...

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing...

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I never learned...

I never learned...

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is...

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Beware of losing...

Beware of losing...

Beware of losing what isn't in your head.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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A musicologist is...

A musicologist is...

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Source: Beecham...

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Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

Source:...

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I had learned...

I had learned...

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same...

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