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Rudolf Bing: There are two...

Rudolf Bing: There are two...

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up ....

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George Bernard Shaw: If Pygmalion, is...

George Bernard Shaw: If Pygmalion, is...

If Pygmalion, is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether...

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Willem de Kooning: My interest in...

Willem de Kooning: My interest in...

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start...

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G C Lichtenberg: Most subjects at...

G C Lichtenberg: Most subjects at...

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become...

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G C Lichtenberg: If you are...

G C Lichtenberg: If you are...

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Faultily faultless, icily...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Faultily faultless, icily...

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now slides the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now slides the...

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.


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Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -- but He did give us children to make them...

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Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you...

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Peter Shaffer: If London is...

Peter Shaffer: If London is...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Source: In NY Times, 13 Apr...

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J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end...

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Ludovico Ariosto: We soon believe...

Ludovico Ariosto: We soon believe...

We soon believe the things we would believe.

Source: Orlando Furioso, 1532.
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John Clare: Still, I have...

John Clare: Still, I have...

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to...

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Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

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Anne Sexton: Even without wars,...

Anne Sexton: Even without wars,...

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Robert Burns: O wad some...

Robert Burns: O wad some...

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What does little...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What does little...

What does little birdie say
In her nest at peep of day?


Source: Song
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William Wordsworth: The mightiest lever...

William Wordsworth: The mightiest lever...

The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.

Source: In Pearls of...

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Nathalie Sarraute: Suspicion. . ....

Nathalie Sarraute: Suspicion. . ....

Suspicion. . . is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another...

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Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...

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