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«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.»
Author: George Steiner (Critic, Educator, Scholar) | Keywords: Auschwitz, Bach, Goethe, Rilke, Schubert, work at
«Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.»
Author: Guy Davenport | About: Reading | Keywords: Goethe, paralyzing, suspicion
«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.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: Byron, Goethe
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