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"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"The will of God is good, acceptable and perfect."
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"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will."
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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
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"If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
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"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."
Opera
"People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses."
People
"Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality."
Time
"It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else."
Art
"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them."
Colors
"There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way."
America
"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
American
"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."
Talent
"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."
Music
"We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners."
Time
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