"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."

-- Cyrano de Bergerac

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“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.”
“To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.”
“It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.”
“Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.”
“whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.”
“I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...”
“Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.”
“I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.”

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