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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7321)

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Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous it may never be possible it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
Alison Croggon
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Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
Alison Croggon
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Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Giovanni Ruffini
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude Stein
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A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
Amin Maalouf
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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
Toni Morrison
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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
Joseph Addison
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She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
James M. Barrie
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Architecture is crystallized music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'
Paul Engle
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
Alfred Bunn
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The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
Alfred Bunn
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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Joseph Addison
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My cage has many rooms.
Stephen Sondheim
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It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
Richard Wagner
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
Bertolt Brecht
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When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!
Tina Fey
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Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Joseph Addison
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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
E. M. Forster
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Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
Alexander Pushkin
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