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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain

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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. – Mark Twain

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. – Mark Twain

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When in doubt tell the truth. – Mark Twain

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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe

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If I werent reasonably placid, I dont think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, youve got to be absolutely like a horse. – Joan Sutherland

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. – H. L. Mencken

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I love Italian opera — its so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and dont care about their immortal souls, and dont worry about the ultimate. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternitys sunrise. – William Blake

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