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Gian Carlo Menotti has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
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I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by…
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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
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Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain…
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the…
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me.…
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William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles…
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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,…
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A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been…
— Roger Moore
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I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things.…
— Michael Morpurgo
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As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the…
— Jung Chang
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
— Aimee Bender
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I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
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