"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."

-- Edith Wharton

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“Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
“And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?”
“When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.”
“This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.”
“No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep .”
“Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.”

Source : "Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer". Book by Emanuel Levy, April 14, 2009.
“I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it.”
“Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.”

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