"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Want Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.”
“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”

Source : Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955
“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“Anything that requires thought is just too much.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”
“In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?”
“The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.”

Source : Source: slushpile.net
“Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.”

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