"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ned Rorem

#Artist Quotes #Fire Quotes #Each Day Quotes

“I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.”
“It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.”
“I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.”
“I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

Source : Quoted in Roland Flamini, Ava (1983)
“I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.”
“A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.”
“By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars. Throughout our two hundred plus years, public policy debate has focused on political and economic issues, on which there can be compromise. . . .”

Source : Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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