Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
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William Shakespeare
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
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Samuel Johnson
He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.
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Anonymous
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
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Gertrude Stein
What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.
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Gustave Flaubert
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The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.
