"Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives."

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Source : Bruno Walter, James Austin Galston (1946). “Theme and Variations: An Autobiography”, New York, Knopf

Bruno Walter

“Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.”
“Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.”
“I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.”
“We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
“I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.”
“Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.”
“I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.”

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