"I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.”

Source : "Lily Rabe’s Master Class". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2011.
“I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.”
“All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.”

Source : James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”
“The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors
“With GG, you don't get what you expect. You get what you deserve.”
“Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.”
“he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.”
“The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.”

Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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