"Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed."

-- Willis Regier

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“If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.”
“Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina,”
“You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.”
“The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.”
“I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.”
“If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.”

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