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You have to...

You have to...

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other...

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Syncopations are no...

Syncopations are no...

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at hateful ragtime no longer passes for...

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When I'm dead...

When I'm dead...

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Source:...

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Everywhere in the...

Everywhere in the...

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the...

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Your mind must...

Your mind must...

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

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Composing a concert...

Composing a concert...

Composing a concert is like composing a menu. . . . If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after...

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Sometimes I think,...

Sometimes I think,...

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of...

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Thomas Otway: Clocks will go...

Thomas Otway: Clocks will go...

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

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Thomas Shadwell: No man is...

Thomas Shadwell: No man is...

No man is happy but by comparison.

Source: In The Forbes Book of Business...

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Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the...

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James Michener: If you reject...

James Michener: If you reject...

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You...

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Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World...

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Henry Fielding: I have found...

Henry Fielding: I have found...

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was...

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Jane Austen: I think I...

Jane Austen: I think I...

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...

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Douglas Adams: There is a...

Douglas Adams: There is a...

There is a theory that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


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Anna Sewell: I am never...

Anna Sewell: I am never...

I am never afraid of what I know.

Source: Black Beauty, 1877.
-- Anna Sewell,...

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Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you...

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Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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Harry Crews: There is something...

Harry Crews: There is something...

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed...

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