Allen Shawn Quotes
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Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.
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The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.
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I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.
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Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them “wonderful and truly original,” agreed with him that, regrettably, “precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize.”
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The fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation’s creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.