"Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Opera Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.”
“A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.”
“I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day...Embracing Scenes and Experiences Among Semi-civilized as Well as Cultured Peoples of the World”
“You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.”
“I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.”
“[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR at the time was blasphemous, something very serious indeed. Today we think about the USSR with the camps also in mind, but before it just wasn't allowed. Nobody was allowed to think that or say that if you were left-wing.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?”
“One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.”

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