None of us can choose where we shall love...

Susan Kay

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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

David Markson

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Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds. But it never reached the extremes Dr. Urbino had hoped for, which was to see Italianizers and Wagnerians confronting each other with sticks and canes during the intermissions.

Gabriel García Márquez

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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Maria Callas

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Robert Benchley

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The opera…is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H.L. Mencken

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The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song -
This damn door sticks,
This damn door sticks
It sticks no matter what I do.
It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pulling
Perhaps it should be marked 'push'?

Terry Pratchett

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Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Terry Pratchett

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They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.

Gaston Leroux

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I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana

Susan Kay

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