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
More Quotes By Joan Rivers
I had a blind date with a dentist – and he told me to come back in six months.
People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.
I said, "Is there! " I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math – if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.
It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything – staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.
