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Answer them [critics]...

Answer them [critics]...

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . ....

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Richard Wagner, a...

Richard Wagner, a...

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

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The first rule...

The first rule...

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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A happy woman...

A happy woman...

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her...

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I must absorb...

I must absorb...

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the...

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The very best...

The very best...

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it...

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Stanislaw Lec: One has to...

Stanislaw Lec: One has to...

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control...

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James Matthew Barrie: It is all...

James Matthew Barrie: It is all...

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?

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James Matthew Barrie: Some of my...

James Matthew Barrie: Some of my...

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

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-- James Matthew Barrie,...

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Jean Giraudoux: Only the mediocre...

Jean Giraudoux: Only the mediocre...

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

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Joseph Brodsky: A language ....

Joseph Brodsky: A language ....

A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Source: In...

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Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.


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Ogden Nash: Life is not...

Ogden Nash: Life is not...

Life is not having been told
That the man just waxed the floor.


Source: In...

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Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

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Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Martial: Live thy life...

Martial: Live thy life...

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Source: Epigrams, 7,...

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