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"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."

"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."

"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."

"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself."

"In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk."

"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
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"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities."


"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."


"I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public."


"Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there."


"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college."


"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."


"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."
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