"To start writing about your life is, from……" — Ned Rorem
"To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday."
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28 Quotes by Ned Rorem
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to…
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
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Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
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Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
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Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
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The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged…
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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