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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
— Tori Amos
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A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…
— Virginia Woolf
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I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no…
— Evgeny Kissin
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Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.
— Maurizio Pollini
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It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.
— Diana Krall
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I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.
— Alicia Keys
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In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is…
— Unknown Author
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it
— Vanessa Carlton
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I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was…
— Colin Hay
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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would…
— Diane Cilento
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.…
— Anthony Trollope
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
— Victor Borge
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