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"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."
"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"
"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."
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"The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime."
"The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it."
"When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!"
"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests."
"Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers."
"Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers."
"French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety."
"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
"In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study."
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