"Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health."

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Source : Source: www.vulture.com

David Edelstein

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
“One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.”
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.”
“Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.”
“Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.”
“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”

Source : David Baldacci (2009). “The Camel Club”, p.304, Pan Macmillan
“The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.”

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