"It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things."

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Riccardo Muti

#Study Quotes #Extraordinary Quotes

“I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.”
“Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?”
“I don't lead you and you must not lead me too, but we have each other, go forward together as brothers and sisters.”
“When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”
“The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer”
“My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.”
“If you were a tree, what kind would you be?”
“No one knew about the squirrelâ€™s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.”

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