"Only the impossible lasts forever."

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Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.102, Faber & Faber

Djuna Barnes

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“Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.”
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.”

Source : "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.
“If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.”
“You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world”
“That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
“All I can promise the supporters of Reading is that I come in here and give 100%, I try to get the team successful on the pitch, and we try to do that as quickly as possible. The Championship is a league that can very quickly change and we hope to change for the better.”
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.”

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