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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
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The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
Notes on Abstract Art in Herbert Reads Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings (London, 1948) -
The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
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The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
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