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"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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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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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."
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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."
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"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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"There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music."
Music
"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last."
Will
"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."
Music
"Opera is given so little attention in the national press."
Attention
"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
"I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period."
Time
"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
"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
Will
"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."
Now
"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."
Mother
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