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: Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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Count Leo Tolstoy :
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A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.
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Selected works of Torquato Tasso in Italian
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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
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It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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