"I write music with an exclamation point!"

-- Richard Wagner

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“To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.”
“Lawyers are natural politicians.”
“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.”
“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
“Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!”
“My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.”

Source : "Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 13, 2014.
“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.”
“I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats”

Source : Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart

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