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Classic Quotes

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

"Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought". Book by John Paynter, 1992.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

"In The Money" with Jack Cafferty, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press