What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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![“Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.” quote by Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/339/arthur-helps-5833_chains_be-cheerful-and-grateful-for-the-good-th_1063388.png)
