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“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
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“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
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“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
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