"Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera."

-- Don Rickles

#People Quotes #Singing Quotes #Opera Quotes

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.”
“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”

Source : Andrew Holleran (1978). “The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel”, William Morrow & Company
“He's just fun, so much fun. I'm very happy now.”
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
“There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place”
“I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.”
“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”

Source : Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.5, Ballantine Books
“Heaven give you many, many merry days.”

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