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Louise Erdrich: They were so...

Louise Erdrich: They were so...

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were;...

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Titus Maccius Plautus: One eye witness...

Titus Maccius Plautus: One eye witness...

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Lillian Hellman: If I had...

Lillian Hellman: If I had...

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or...

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William Gilbert: No good play...

William Gilbert: No good play...

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for...

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Beth Henley: There are probably...

Beth Henley: There are probably...

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do?...

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Beth Henley: And all writing...

Beth Henley: And all writing...

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it...

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Jean Racine: One learns, said...

Jean Racine: One learns, said...

One learns, said the other, to howl with the wolves. (On apprend ? hurler, dit l'autre, avec les...

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Jean Racine: Day is not...

Jean Racine: Day is not...

Day is not purer than the depths of my heart. (Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon...

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August Wilson: The harder you...

August Wilson: The harder you...

The harder you try to hold onto them, the easier it is for some gal to pull them away.

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Alan Bennett: The great advantage...

Alan Bennett: The great advantage...

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one...

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Alan Bennett: Your whole life...

Alan Bennett: Your whole life...

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

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Cold calculation, random...

Cold calculation, random...

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that...

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Any subject is...

Any subject is...

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

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If you think...

If you think...

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Source: In Friendly...

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The longer you...

The longer you...

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are...

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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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Musical comedies aren't...

Musical comedies aren't...

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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God tells me...

God tells me...

God tells me how the music should sound, but you, stand in the way.

Source: To a...

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The sound of...

The sound of...

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

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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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