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Letter "G" » Goethe
«We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.»
«Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.»
«Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.»
Author: James Bryce
| Keywords:
Goethe
«Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Privacy,
Talent
| Keywords:
aloneness, developed, Goethe, in on, privacy
«Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
beset, besets, besetting, fundamentalism, Goethe, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, roaring
«It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
billiard, billiards, Goethe
«Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.»
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