"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."

-- Placido Domingo

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“Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.”
“Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.”
“Honors to me now are not what they once were.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur's written statement on the death of his wife, Ellen, as quoted in Thomas C. Reeves "Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur" (Chapter 8), 1975.
“Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.”
“It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.”
“A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.”

Source : Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.6, University of Arizona Press
“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”
“I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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