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Jean De La Bruyere
: The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.
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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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I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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Robertson Davies :
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
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H L Mencken :
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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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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.
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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
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