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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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