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

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain

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I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. – Franco Zeffirelli

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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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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. – Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. – Jean De La Bruyere

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