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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7320)

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As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
Vladimir Sorokin
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I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.
Vladimir Sorokin
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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. Forster
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
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Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Joseph Addison
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I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.
Lord Byron
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Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
W. H. Auden
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
W. H. Auden
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Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
W. H. Auden
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The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
W. H. Auden
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The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
W. H. Auden
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The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.
W. H. Auden
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Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
W. H. Auden
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I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
W. H. Auden
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a culture is no better than its woods
W. H. Auden
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Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.
W. H. Auden
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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
W. H. Auden
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Let all your thinks be thanks.
W. H. Auden
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The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
W. H. Auden
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Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.
W. H. Auden
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